Spelman, R J; Huisman, A E; Singireddy, S R; Coppieters, W; Arranz, J; Georges, M; Garrick, D J
Affiliation:
Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedicatl Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Department of Genetics, University of Liege, Belgium
Title:
Short communication: quantitative trait loci analysis on 17 nonproduction traits in the New Zealand dairy population.
Seven New Zealand Holstein-Friesian families and two Jersey families, a total of 274 sires, were analyzed in a granddaughter design for marker-quantitative trait loci associations. For 17 nonproduction traits (management, size, and conformation traits), an across-family analysis was undertaken using multimarker regression procedures. Threshold levels were set empirically by permuting the data. A quantitative trait locus for stature was identified on chromosome 14, which was significant at the 15% experimentwise level (suggestive linkage). The quantitative trait locus was identified to be segregating in three of the nine families.