DNA methylation patterns in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Holstein cattle with variable milk yield

Abstract Background Milk yield for Holstein cows has doubled over five decades due to genetic selection and changes to management, but the molecular mechanisms that facilitated this increase are mostly unknown. Epigenetic modifications to the cattle genome are a plausible molecular mechanism to caus...

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Main Authors: Chad D Dechow, Wan-Sheng Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-5124-9