Cattle Sex-Specific Recombination and Genetic Control from a Large Pedigree Analysis.

Meiotic recombination is an essential biological process that generates genetic diversity and ensures proper segregation of chromosomes during meiosis. From a large USDA dairy cattle pedigree with over half a million genotyped animals, we extracted 186,927 three-generation families, identified over...

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Main Authors: Li Ma, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Paul M VanRaden, Botong Shen, Abinash Padhi, Chuanyu Sun, Derek M Bickhart, John B Cole, Daniel J Null, George E Liu, Yang Da, George R Wiggans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-11-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4634960?pdf=render