Maternal variant in the upstream of FOXP3 gene on the X chromosome is associated with recurrent infertility in Japanese Black cattle

Maternal variant in the upstream of FOXP3 gene on the X chromosome is associated with recurrent infertility in Japanese Black cattle

Abstract Background Repeat breeding, which is defined as cattle failure to conceive after three or more inseminations in the absence of clinical abnormalities, is a substantial problem in cattle breeding. To identify maternal genetic variants of repeat breeding in Japanese Black cattle, we selected...

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Main Authors: Taichi Arishima, Shinji Sasaki, Tomohiro Isobe, Yoshihisa Ikebata, Shinichi Shimbara, Shogo Ikeda, Keisuke Kawashima, Yutaka Suzuki, Manabu Watanabe, Sumio Sugano, Kazunori Mizoshita, Yoshikazu Sugimoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Genetics
Subjects:
Repeat breeding
Infertility
Embryo transfer (ET)
FOXP3
Genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Beef cattle
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12863-017-0573-8

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