The cow (Bos taurus) is an important model organism for biomedical research and development, in addition to being agriculturally important. This special series of companion papers includes work from both the Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium and the Bovine HapMap Consortium.
Genomic characteristics of cattle copy number variations
Copy number variation (CNV) represents another important source of genetic variation complementary to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). High-density SNP array data have been routinely used to detect human ...