From an extensive review of public domain information on dairy cattle quantitative trait loci
(QTL), we have prepared a draft online QTL map for dairy production traits. Most …

Structural features of the dairy industry make it well situated to use embryo technologies as
tools for enhancing the genetic merit of dairy cattle and improving fertility. Technologies …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on high throughput SNP genotyping
technologies open a broad avenue for exploring genes associated with milk production traits …

Chromosomal regions harboring variation affecting cattle birth weight and BW gain to 1 yr of
age were identified by marker association using the highly parallel BovineSNP50 BeadChip …

Background Contemporary dairy breeding goals have broadened to include, along with milk
production traits, a number of non-production-related traits in an effort to improve the overall …

We herein report new evidence that the QTL effect on chromosome 20 in Finnish Ayrshire
can be explained by variation in two distinct genes, growth hormone receptor (GHR) and …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have increased the ability to detect sequence
variations for complex trait improvement. A high throughput genome wide genotyping-by …

The data from the newly available 50 K SNP chip was used for tagging the genome‐wide
footprints of positive selection in Holstein–Friesian cattle. For this purpose, we employed the …

Abstract Background Recently, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has rapidly emerged as a major
transcriptome profiling system. Elucidation of the bovine mammary gland transcriptome by …

Genome scans for detection of bovine quantitative trait loci (QTL) were performed via
variance component linkage analysis and linkage disequilibrium single-locus regression …