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SUBMITTER: Bovine HapMap Consortium
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2735092 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090401 5926
The imprints of domestication and breed development on the genomes of livestock likely differ from those of companion animals. A deep draft sequence assembly of shotgun reads from a single Hereford female and comparative sequences sampled from six additional breeds were used to develop probes to interrogate 37,470 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 497 cattle from 19 geographically and biologically diverse breeds. These data show that cattle have undergone a rapid recent decrease in effec ...[more]