Italian Journal of Animal Science (Jan 2010)

The BovMAS Consortium: identification of QTL for milk yield and milk protein percent on chromosome 14 in the Brown Swiss breed

  • M. Soller,
  • E. Lipkin,
  • A. Friedman,
  • L. Fontanesi,
  • J. Sölkner,
  • I. Medugorac,
  • E. Santus,
  • A. Rossoni,
  • C. Maltecca,
  • A. Bagnato,
  • S. Dubini,
  • M. Dolezal,
  • F. Schiavini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/ijas.2005.2s.13
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2s
pp. 13 – 15

Abstract

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Numerous studies have found a large number of QTL associated with productive and functional traits in the cattle genome. Several Countries have already established research programs aiming at identification and exploitation of QTLs in dairy cattle (Bovenhuis and Schrooten 2002). However, the published results are not directly exploitable for MAS, as commercial interests limit the information in the literature, and because marker-QTL phase is specific to each family.

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