Evaluating the potential impact of selection for the a2 milk allele on inbreeding and performance in australian holstein cattle

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  • who: . et al. from the University of Guelph, Canada have published the Article: Evaluating the potential impact of selection for the A2 milk allele on inbreeding and performance in Australian Holstein cattle, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors focused on the A2 allele, however, the principles of this study may also apply to other mutations, such as polled (Cole and Null, 2019) and SLICK (Littlejohn et_al, 2014), that are currently at lower frequencies in the population. This study shows that the frequency of the A2/A2 genotype in Holstein cows has increased by 20 . . .

     

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