A QTL with major effect on milk yield and composition maps to bovine Chromosome 14 |
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| Authors: | Wouter Coppieters Juliette Riquet Juan-José Arranz Paulette Berzi Nadine Cambisano Bernard Grisart Latifa Karim Fabienne Marcq Laurence Moreau Carine Nezer Patricia Simon Pascal Vanmanshoven Danny Wagenaar Michel Georges |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège (B43), 20 Bd de Colonster, 4000-Liège, Belgium, BE |
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| Abstract: | A whole genome scan was undertaken in a granddaughter design comprising 1158 progeny-tested bulls in order to map QTL influencing
milk yield and composition. In this paper we report the identification of a locus on the centromeric end of bovine Chromosome
(Chr) 14, with major effect on fat and protein percentage as well as milk yield. The genuine nature of this QTL was verified
using the grand2-daughter design, that is, by tracing the segregating QTL alleles from heterozygous grandsires to their maternal grandsons
and confirming the predicted QTL allele substitution effect.
Received: 30 December 1997 / Accepted: 21 February 1998 |
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