Stature is affected by many polymorphisms of small effect in humans 1 . In contrast, variation
in dogs, even within breeds, has been suggested to be largely due to variants in a small …

Background If unmanaged, high rates of inbreeding in livestock populations adversely impact
their reproductive fitness. In beef cattle, historical selection strategies have increased the …

Decreasing costs are making low coverage sequencing with imputation to a comprehensive
reference panel an attractive alternative to obtain functional variant genotypes that can …

Background During the last decade, the use of common-variant array-based single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping in the beef and dairy industries has produced an …

Domestication and subsequent selection of cattle to form breeds and biological types that can
adapt to different environments partitioned ancestral genetic diversity into distinct modern …

Background Decreasing sequencing costs and development of new protocols for characterizing
global methylation, gene expression patterns and regulatory regions have stimulated …

While genetic evaluation systems which combine performance records and pedigree data
have been utilized in the beef industry for over four decades, the incorporation of genomic …

Recent strong selection for dairy traits in water buffalo has been associated with higher
levels of inbreeding, leading to an increase in the prevalence of genetic diseases such as …

Methylation patterns established and maintained at CpG sites may be altered by single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within these sites and may affect the regulation of nearby …

Background National genetic evaluations for disease resistance do not exist, precluding the
genetic improvement of cattle for these traits. We imputed BovineHD genotypes to whole …