Gene Networks Driving Genetic Variation in Milk and Cheese-Making Traits of Spanish Assaf Sheep.

ABSTRACT: Most of the milk produced by sheep is used for the production of high-quality cheese. Consequently, traits related to milk coagulation properties and cheese yield are economically important to the Spanish dairy industry. The present study aims to identify candidate genes and their regulators related to 14 milk and cheese-making traits and to develop a low-density panel of markers that could be used to predict an individual's genetic potential for cheese-making efficiency. In this study, we performed a combination of the classical genome-wide association study (GWAS) with a stepwise regression method and a pleiotropy analysis to determine the best combination of the variants located within the confidence intervals of the potential candidate genes that may explain the greatest genetic varian

SUBMITTER: Marina H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397207 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature