One of the biggest challenges facing evolutionary biologists is to identify and understand
loci that explain fitness variation in natural populations. This review describes how genetic …

Bovine and buffalo are important livestock species that have contributed to human lives for
more than 1000 years. Improving fertility is very important to reduce the cost of production. In …

Background Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are contiguous lengths of homozygous genotypes
that are present in an individual due to parents transmitting identical haplotypes to their …

The success of genome-wide association (GWA) studies for the detection of sequence
variation affecting complex traits in human has spurred interest in the use of large-scale high …

When a genetic marker and a quantitative trait locus (QTL) are in linkage disequilibrium (LD)
in one population, they may not be in LD in another population or their LD phase may be …

The genetic structure of sheep reflects their domestication and subsequent formation into
discrete breeds. Understanding genetic structure is essential for achieving genetic …

Genomic prediction of future phenotypes or genetic merit using dense SNP genotypes can
be used for prediction of disease risk, forensics, and genomic selection of livestock and …

Genomic selection (GS) using high-density single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is
promising to improve response to selection in populations that are under artificial selection …

Background Genomic selection is a recently developed technology that is beginning to
revolutionize animal breeding. The objective of this study was to estimate marker effects to …

Background Health traits are of significant economic importance to the dairy industry due to
their effects on milk production and associated treatment costs. Genome-wide association …