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Haplotypes in Dairy

Haplotypes Affecting Fertility and their Impact on Dairy Cattle Breeding Programs

Published: November 10, 2011
Summary
New tools in genomics have provided an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the cattle genome and the relationship between variation in DNA sequences and differences in the conformation, health, fertility, and performance of dairy cattle.  Genetic selection has become genomic selection, and terms such as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), imputation, and haploty...
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Dr. Kent A. Weigel
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of Wisconsin - Madison
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Thelmo hervas
22 de noviembre de 2011
Hi Dr. Weigel, really good article, what could we do in populations as in Ecuador were cows are grade and nor pedrigree pure, to solve embrionic death which is above 20%?
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