Genome-Wide Association Study for Carcass Traits in an Experimental Nelore Cattle Population.

The purpose of this study was to identify genomic regions associated with carcass traits in an experimental Nelore cattle population. The studied data set contained 2,306 ultrasound records for longissimus muscle area (LMA), 1,832 for backfat thickness (BF), and 1,830 for rump fat thickness (RF). A...

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Main Authors: Rafael Medeiros de Oliveira Silva, Nedenia Bonvino Stafuzza, Breno de Oliveira Fragomeni, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Thaís Matos Ceacero, Joslaine Noely Dos Santos Gonçalves Cyrillo, Fernando Baldi, Arione Augusti Boligon, Maria Eugênia Zerlotti Mercadante, Daniela Lino Lourenco, Ignacy Misztal, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5261778?pdf=render