Many quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting economic traits in livestock have now been
identified. However, the confidence interval (CI) of individual QTL as determined by linkage …

Artificial selection has created myriad breeds of domestic animals, each characterized by
unique phenotypes pertaining to behavior, morphology, physiology, and disease. Most …

Increased inbreeding is an inevitable consequence of selection in livestock populations. The
analysis of high‐density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) facilitates the identification …

We previously localized a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 6 affecting milk fat
and protein concentration to a 4-cM confidence interval, centered on the microsatellite …

Background Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are continuous homozygous segments of the
DNA sequence. They have been applied to quantify individual autozygosity and used as a …

Abstract Background Traditionally, Chinese indigenous sheep were classified
geographically and morphologically into three groups: Mongolian, Kazakh and Tibetan …

Background Bovine whole genome linkage disequilibrium maps were constructed for eight
breeds of cattle. These data provide fundamental information concerning bovine genome …

The increasing evidence of fetal developmental effects on postnatal life, the still unknown
fetal growth mechanisms impairing offspring generated by somatic nuclear transfer …

Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) is a topic of major agricultural significance for efficient livestock
production. This book covers various statistical methods that have been used or proposed …

Our objective was to perform a genome-wide association study for content in bovine milk of
α S1-casein (α S1-CN), α S2-casein (α S2-CN), β-casein (β-CN), κ-casein (κ-CN), α …