Fatty acids (FAs) of milk fat are considered to be important nutritional components of the
diets of a significant portion of the human population and substantially affect human health …

There is increasing evidence to indicate that nutrition is an important factor involved in the
onset and development of several chronic human diseases including cancer, cardiovascular …

Background Inbreeding reduces the fitness of individuals by increasing the frequency of
homozygous deleterious recessive alleles. Some insight into the genetic architecture of …

The article describes the recent data dealing with the fatty acid content in cow, goat, and
sheep milk. A large body of evidence demonstrates that fatty acid profile in goat and sheep …

Background Artificial selection for economically important traits in cattle is expected to have
left distinctive selection signatures on the genome. Access to high-density genotypes …

Background Genotypic information produced from single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
arrays has routinely been used to identify genomic regions associated with complex traits in …

The diversity of populations in domestic species offers great opportunities to study genome
response to selection. The recently published Sheep HapMap dataset is a great example of …

Detecting genes associated with milk fat composition could provide valuable insights into
the complex genetic networks of genes underling variation in fatty acids synthesis and point …

Domestic animals are invaluable resources for study of the molecular architecture of
complex traits. Although the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have increased the ability to detect sequence
variations for complex trait improvement. A high throughput genome wide genotyping-by …