Inbreeding depression due to recent and ancient inbreeding in Dutch Holstein–Friesian dairy cattle

BACKGROUND: Inbreeding decreases animal performance (inbreeding depression), but not all inbreeding is expected to be equally harmful. Recent inbreeding is expected to be more harmful than ancient inbreeding, because selection decreases the frequency of deleterious alleles over time. Selection effic...

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Autores principales: Doekes, Harmen P., Veerkamp, Roel F., Bijma, Piter, de Jong, Gerben, Hiemstra, Sipke J., Windig, Jack J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-019-0497-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6764141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-019-0497-z

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