A Genome-Wide Association Study for Clinical Mastitis in First Parity US Holstein Cows Using Single-Step Approach and Genomic Matrix Re-Weighting Procedure

• Francesco Tiezzi ,

  * E-mail: ftmaestr@ncsu.edu

  ¶‡ FT, KLPG, JBC and CM contributed equally to this work. JSC also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States of America

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• Kristen L. Parker-Gaddis ,

  ¶‡ FT, KLPG, JBC and CM contributed equally to this work. JSC also contributed to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States of America, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD, 20705–2350, United States of America

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• John B. Cole ,

  ¶‡ FT, KLPG, JBC and CM contributed equally to this work. JSC also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, MD, 20705–2350, United States of America

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• John S. Clay ,

  ¶‡ FT, KLPG, JBC and CM contributed equally to this work. JSC also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Dairy Records Management Systems, Raleigh, NC, 27603, United States of America

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• Christian Maltecca

  ¶‡ FT, KLPG, JBC and CM contributed equally to this work. JSC also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, United States of America

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