Genetic polymorphisms in immune- and inflammation-associated genes and their association with bovine mastitis resistance/susceptibility.

ABSTRACT: Bovine mastitis, the inflammation of the mammary gland, is a contagious disease characterized by chemical and physical changes in milk and pathological changes in udder tissues. Depressed immunity and higher expression of inflammatory cytokines with an elevated milk somatic cell count can be observed during mastitis in dairy cattle. The use of somatic cell count (SCC) and somatic cell score (SCS) as correlated traits in the indirect selection of animals against mastitis resistance is in progress globally. Traditional breeding for mastitis resistance seems difficult because of the low heritability (0.10-0.16) of SCC/SCS and clinical mastitis. Thus, genetic-marker-selective breeding to improve host genetics has attracted considerable attention worldwide. Moreover, genomic selection has been

SUBMITTER: Khan MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9997099 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature