Genome-wide association study provides strong evidence of genes affecting the reproductive performance of Nellore beef cows

Thaise Pinto de Melo; Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo; Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque; Roberto Carvalheiro

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178551

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Genome-wide association study provides strong evidence of genes affecting the reproductive performance of Nellore beef cows

Thaise Pinto de Melo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Roberto Carvalheiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Thaise Pinto de Melo, Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo, Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque, Roberto Carvalheiro

* E-mail: rcar@fcav.unesp.br

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, FCAV/ UNESP – Sao Paulo State University, Jaboticabal, Sao Paulo, Brazil, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasília, DF, Brazil
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Genome-wide association study provides strong evidence of genes affecting the reproductive performance of Nellore beef cows

Thaise Pinto de Melo,
Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo,
Lucia Galvão de Albuquerque,
Roberto Carvalheiro

Published: May 31, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178551

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