BMC Genetics

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An assessment of population structure in eight breeds of cattle using a whole genome SNP panel

Stephanie D McKay1,2, Robert D Schnabel2, Brenda M Murdoch1, Lakshmi K Matukumalli3,4, Jan Aerts5, Wouter Coppieters6, Denny Crews1,7, Emmanuel D Neto8,9, Clare A Gill10, Chuan Gao10, Hideyuki Mannen11, Zhiquan Wang1, Curt P Van Tassell3, John L Williams12, Jeremy F Taylor2 and Stephen S Moore1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2 Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

3 Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA

4 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA

5 Division of Genetics and Genomics, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Midlothian, Scotland, UK

6 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, 4000-Liege, Belgium

7 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

8 Instituto de Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

9 Genoa Biotecnologia S/A, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

10 Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

11 Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Japan

12 Parco Tecnologico Padano, Via Einstein, Polo Universitario, Lodi, Italy

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BMC Genetics 2008, 9:37 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-9-37

Published: 20 May 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

SNP information. Map locations are shown in centimorgans for each SNP. Minor allele frequencies are shown for each SNP and each breed.

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