Genome-wide comparative analyses of correlated and uncorrelated phenotypes identify major pleiotropic variants in dairy cattle

Ruidong Xiang; Iona M MacLeod; Sunduimijid Bolormaa; Michael E Goddard

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Genome-wide comparative analyses of correlated and uncorrelated phenotypes identify major pleiotropic variants in dairy cattle

Ruidong Xiang, Iona M MacLeod, Sunduimijid Bolormaa, Michael E Goddard

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09788-9

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Ruidong Xiang Author Agriculture and Food

Michael Goddard Author Agriculture and Food

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Awarded by Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank DataGene for access to data used in this study and Gert Nieuwhof, Kon Konstantinov and Timothy P. Hancock for preparation and provision of data. This research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (DP160101056). We also thank the DairyBio initiative for the financial support.