Candidate genes for mastitis resistance in dairy cattle: a data integration approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inflammation of the mammary tissue (mastitis) is one of the most detrimental health conditions in dairy ruminants and is considered the most economically important infectious disease of the dairy sector. Improving mastitis resistance is becoming an important goal in dairy ruminant breeding programmes. However, mastitis resistance is a complex trait and identification of mastitis-associated alleles in livestock is difficult. Currently, the only applicable approach to identify candidate loci for complex traits in large farm animals is to combine different information that supports the functionality of the identified genomic regions with respect to a complex trait.

Methods

To identify the most promising candidate loci for mastitis resistance we integrated heterogeneo

SUBMITTER: Brajnik Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9912691 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature