Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds
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A survey of genetic diversity of cattle suggests two domestication events in Asia and selection by husbandry.
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The tolerance attributes of Sheko are believed to be associated with its taurine genetic background.
“The tolerance attributes of Sheko are believed to be associated with its taurine genetic background but the genetic controls of these tolerance attributes of Sheko are not well understood.”
From Identification of Candidate Signature Genes and Key Regulators Associated With Trypanotolerance in the Sheko Breed (2019) · cites this paper as Gibbs et al., 2009
The passage on breed clustering (section labeled Abstract; page not provided) identifies Sheko as having both taurine and indicine ancestry. It does not discuss Sheko’s tolerance attributes or associate them with its taurine ancestry, so the proposed connection is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- The Bovine HapMap Consortium, Gibbs, R. A., Taylor, J. F., Van Tassell, C. P., Barendse, W., Eversole, K. A., Gill, C. A., Green, R. D., Hamernik, D. L., Kappes, S. M., Lien, S., Matukumalli, L. K., McEwan, J. C., Nazareth, L. V., Schnabel, R. D., Weinstock, G. M., Wheeler, D. A., Ajmone-Marsan, P., Boettcher, P. J., Caetano, A. R., Garcia, J. F., Hanotte, O., Mariani, P., Skow, L. C., Sonstegard, T. S., Williams, J. L., Diallo, B., Hailemariam, L., Martinez, M. L., Morris, C. A., Silva, L. O. C., Spelman, R. J., Mulatu, W., Zhao, K., Abbey, C. A., Agaba, M., Araujo, F. R., Bunch, R. J., Burton, J., Gorni, C., Olivier, H., Harrison, B. E., Luff, B., Machado, M. A., Mwakaya, J., Plastow, G., Sim, W., Smith, T., Thomas, M. B., Valentini, A., Williams, P., Womack, J., Woolliams, J. A., Liu, Y., Qin, X., Worley, K. C., Gao, C., Jiang, H., Moore, S. S., Ren, Y., Song, X.-Z., Bustamante, C. D., Hernandez, R. D., Muzny, D. M., Patil, S., San Lucas, A., Fu, Q., Kent, M. P., Vega, R., Matukumalli, A., McWilliam, S., Sclep, G., Bryc, K., Choi, J., Gao, H., Grefenstette, J. J., Murdoch, B., Stella, A., Villa-Angulo, R., Wright, M., Aerts, J., Jann, O., Negrini, R., Goddard, M. E., Hayes, B. J., Bradley, D. G., Barbosa da Silva, M., Lau, L. P. L., Liu, G. E., Lynn, D. J., Panzitta, F., & Dodds, K. G.
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- Gibbs, Richard A.
- Taylor, Jeremy F.
- Barendse, William
- Eversole, Kellye A.
- Gill, Clare A.
- Lien, Sigbjørn
- McEwan, John C.
- Schnabel, Robert D.
- Weinstock, George M.
- Wheeler, David A.
- Boettcher, Paul J.
- Caetano, Alexandre R.
- Mariani, Paola
- Skow, Loren C.
- Sonstegard, Tad S.
- Williams, John L.
- Morris, Chris A.
- Spelman, Richard J.
- Zhao, Keyan
- Abbey, Colette A.
- Agaba, Morris
- Machado, Marco A.
- Plastow, Graham
- Valentini, Alessio
- Woolliams, John A.
- Liu, Yue
- Qin, Xiang
- Worley, Kim C.
- Moore, Stephen S.
- Ren, Yanru
- Bustamante, Carlos D.
- Hernandez, Ryan D.
- Muzny, Donna M.
- Kent, Matthew P.
- McWilliam, Sean
- Bryc, Katarzyna
- Gao, Hong
- Grefenstette, John J.
- Murdoch, Brenda
- Villa-Angulo, Rafael
- Wright, Mark
- Aerts, Jan
- Negrini, Riccardo
- Hayes, Ben J.
- Bradley, Daniel G.
- Lau, Lilian P. L.
- Liu, George E.
- Lynn, David J.
- Dodds, Ken G.
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Landbúnaðarháskóli Íslands
- AgResearch
- Holstein Association USA
- Meat and Livestock Australia
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
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- Háskóli Íslands
- Norges Forskningsråd
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Universidade do Porto
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution
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- National Institutes of Health
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM083606)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Keywords
- cattle breeds, genetic structure, single nucleotide polymorphisms, population genetic variation, domestication, effective population size, population bottleneck, breed formation, Hereford, draft genome assembly, livestock genomics
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Breeding, Cattle, Female, Gene Frequency, Male, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Population Density, Genetic Variation, Genome, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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