Identification and dissection of four major QTL affecting milk fat content in the German Holstein-Friesian population.

Identification and dissection of four major QTL affecting milk fat content in the German Holstein-Friesian population.

Milk composition traits exhibit a complex genetic architecture with a small number of major quantitative trait loci (QTL) explaining a large fraction of the genetic variation and numerous QTL with minor effects. In order to identify QTL for milk fat percentage (FP) in the German Holstein-Friesian (H...

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Main Authors: Xiaolong Wang, Christine Wurmser, Hubert Pausch, Simone Jung, Friedrich Reinhardt, Jens Tetens, Georg Thaller, Ruedi Fries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3394711?pdf=render

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