The literature concerning selection for mastitis resistance in dairy cattle is reviewed and the
reasons for including mastitis resistance in dairy cattle breeding programs are described …

Mastitis is a disease of major economic importance to the dairy cattle sector because of the
high incidence of clinical mastitis and prevalence of subclinical mastitis and, consequently …

Genetic parameters were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood with an animal model
on first lactation data of 29,284 French Holstein cows for clinical mastitis, lactation somatic …

Lactation records from 396,534 pedigree Holstein and Holstein-Friesian primiparous cows
from 6,985 UK milk recorded herds, calving for the first time during the period between the …

Using a mixed linear animal model, genetic parameters were estimated for clinical mastitis
(MAST), lactation average somatic cell score (LSCS), and milk production traits in the first 3 …

Mastitis, the most consequential disease in dairy cattle, costs the US dairy industry billions of
dollars annually. To test the feasibility of protecting animals through genetic engineering …

A total of 4368 first lactation records for Holstein cows from 30 herds was used to estimate
genetic parameters for yield, conformation traits, and the binary coded disease traits of …

The literature on somatic cell count (SCC) is reviewed with particular emphasis on genetic
and phenotypic parameters and the suitability of the trait as an indirect means of reducing …

Phenotypic and genetic (co) variances among type traits, milk yield, body weight, fertility and
somatic cell count were estimated. The data analysed included 3,058 primiparous spring …

Milk production and body conformation traits are critical economic traits for dairy cows. To
understand the basic genetic structure for those traits, a genome wide association study was …