Short communication: quantitative trait loci analysis on 17 nonproduction traits in the New Zealand dairy population

J Dairy Sci. 1999 Nov;82(11):2514-6. doi: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(99)75503-7.

Abstract

Seven New Zealand Holstein-Friesian families and two Jersey families, a total of 274 sires, were analyzed in a granddaughter design for marker-quantitative trait loci associations. For 17 nonproduction traits (management, size, and conformation traits), an across-family analysis was undertaken using multimarker regression procedures. Threshold levels were set empirically by permuting the data. A quantitative trait locus for stature was identified on chromosome 14, which was significant at the 15% experimentwise level (suggestive linkage). The quantitative trait locus was identified to be segregating in three of the nine families.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Breeding
  • Cattle / genetics*
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Female
  • Genetic Markers
  • Lactation / genetics
  • Male
  • New Zealand

Substances

  • Genetic Markers