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Inbreeding depression across the genome of Dutch Holstein Friesian dairy cattle

BACKGROUND: Inbreeding depression refers to the decrease in mean performance due to inbreeding. Inbreeding depression is caused by an increase in homozygosity and reduced expression of (on average) favourable dominance effects. Dominance effects and allele frequencies differ across loci, and consequ...

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Autores principales: Doekes, Harmen P., Bijma, Piter, Veerkamp, Roel F., de Jong, Gerben, Wientjes, Yvonne C. J., Windig, Jack J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33115403
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-020-00583-1