Background Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for specific genes
involved in reproduction might improve reliability of genomic estimates for these low …

Many genetic markers related to health or production traits are not evaluated in populations
independent of the discovery population or related to phenotype. Here we evaluated 68 …

The decline in the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle has become a challenging problem
worldwide. Female fertility is now taken into account in breeding goals while generally less …

We evaluated 69 SNP s in genes previously related to fertility and production traits for their
relationship to daughter pregnancy rate (DPR), cow conception rate (CCR) and heifer …

Increasing fertility in dairy cattle is an important goal. Male infertility represents a part of the
overall infertility in dairy cattle and can be partitioned into compensatory and …

Identifying genomic regions, particularly individual genes associated with semen quality
traits, may be very important for improving sire fertility via selective breeding. The aim of the …

A genome wide scan was performed on a total of 2093 Italian Holstein proven bulls
genotyped with 50K single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), with the objective of …

Excellent reproductive performance in both males and females is fundamental to profitable
dairy and beef production systems. In this review we undertook a meta-analysis of genetic …

Background The results obtained from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) often
show pronounced disagreements. Validation of association studies is therefore desired …

The objective of this work was to integrate findings from functional genomics studies with
genome‐wide association studies for fertility and production traits in dairy cattle. Association …