1. Association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and sexual precocity in Nellore heifers
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Raphael Bermal Costa, Arione Augusti Boligon, F. R. P. Souza, Guilherme Costa Venturini, Inaê Cristina Regatieri, Fernando Baldi, Gerardo Alves Fernandes, Humberto Tonhati, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Luciana Takada, Henrique Nunes de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Federal University of Pelotas, and Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
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0301 basic medicine ,Linkage disequilibrium ,Cattle Diseases ,Puberty, Precocious ,Genome-wide association study ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Breeding ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Linkage Disequilibrium ,03 medical and health sciences ,Endocrinology ,Gene Frequency ,Food Animals ,Pregnancy ,Animals ,SNP ,Sexual Maturation ,Genetic association ,Genetics ,Genome-wide association ,Autosome ,Reproduction ,Sire ,0402 animal and dairy science ,Beef cattle ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,040201 dairy & animal science ,Minor allele frequency ,030104 developmental biology ,Cattle ,Female ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Age at first calving ,Heifer pregnancy ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:08:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-02-01 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) The aim of this study was to determine the extent (r2) of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the genome of Nellore cattle, and to examine associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and age at first calving (AFC) and early pregnancy (EP) using a panel of high-density SNPs and data from 1182 Nellore females. A total of 13 contemporary groups (CG) were used consisting of farm, season, and year of birth. For genome-wide association analysis, SNPs with a minor allele frequency (MAF)
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- 2017