Genetic Variation and Composition of Two Commercial Estonian Dairy Cattle Breeds Assessed by SNP Data
Sirje Värv,
Tõnu Põlluäär,
Erkki Sild
et al.
Abstract:The aims of this study were to assess the genomic relatedness of Estonian and selected European dairy cattle breeds and to examine the within-breed diversity of two Estonian dairy breeds using genome-wide SNP data. This study was based on a genotyped heifer population of the Estonian Red (ER) and Estonian Holstein (EH) breeds, including about 10% of all female cattle born in 2017–2020 (sample sizes n = 215 and n = 2265, respectively). The within-breed variation study focused on the level of inbreeding using th… Show more
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