TY - JOUR
T1 - Livestock QTLs - Bringing home the bacon?
AU - Haley, C.S.
N1 - Medline is the source for the MeSH terms of this document.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - Markers have been used for some time to study the genetic control of economically important traits in livestock. The early work was based on single loci and detected some significant effects, but results were often inconsistent across studies. Now that complete microsatellite-based maps of the major species are becoming available, more complete and rigorous scans of the genome are possible. The first of these have detected some surprisingly large effects, both within breeds and in breed crosses. As research workers digest these results and their implications for livestock breeding programmes and ponder further research, commercial breeding companies have already started applying the first fruits of marker research to breed a better animal.
AB - Markers have been used for some time to study the genetic control of economically important traits in livestock. The early work was based on single loci and detected some significant effects, but results were often inconsistent across studies. Now that complete microsatellite-based maps of the major species are becoming available, more complete and rigorous scans of the genome are possible. The first of these have detected some surprisingly large effects, both within breeds and in breed crosses. As research workers digest these results and their implications for livestock breeding programmes and ponder further research, commercial breeding companies have already started applying the first fruits of marker research to breed a better animal.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)89158-1
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)89158-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028845579
VL - 11
SP - 488
EP - 492
JO - Trends in Genetics
JF - Trends in Genetics
SN - 0168-9525
IS - 12
ER -