Compilation of a panel of informative single nucleotide polymorphisms for bovine identification in the Northern Irish cattle population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Animal identification is pivotal in governmental agricultural policy, enabling the management of subsidy payments, movement of livestock, test scheduling and control of disease. Advances in bovine genomics have made it possible to utilise inherent genetic variability to uniquely identify individual animals by DNA profiling, much as has been achieved with humans over the past 20 years. A DNA profiling test based on bi-allelic single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers would offer considerable advantages over current short tandem repeat (STR) based industry standard tests, in that it would be easier to analyse and interpret. In this study, a panel of 51 genome-wide SNPs were genotyped across panels of semen DNA from 6 common breeds for the purposes of ascertaining alleli

SUBMITTER: Allen AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2826282 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature