Synthetic breed

Determination of ancestral proportions in synthetic bovine breeds using commonly employed microsatellite markers

H. M. S. Bicalho, Pimenta, C. G., Mendes, I. K. P., Pena, H. B., Queiroz, E. M., and Pena, S. D. J., Determination of ancestral proportions in synthetic bovine breeds using commonly employed microsatellite markers, vol. 5, pp. 432-437, 2006.

The International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) has chosen nine microsatellites (international marker set) as a standard that should be included in all cattle parentage studies. They are BM1824, BM2113, INRA023, SPS115, TGLA122, TGLA126, TGLA227, ETH10, and ETH225. We decided to ascertain whether this microsatellite set could be used to determine ancestral proportions in individual animals of synthetic breeds produced by crossing zebu and taurine cattle.

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