Holstein cows

Effect of two single nucleotide polymorphisms on milk yield and composition

J. C. Rincón, López-Herrera, A., and Echeverri, J. J., Effect of two single nucleotide polymorphisms on milk yield and composition, vol. 12, pp. 995-1004, 2013.

The bovine prolactin (PRL) and bovine growth hormone (bGH) genes exhibit several polymorphisms. Some of them can be detected by molecular techniques using restriction endonucleases, such as RsaI for the PRL gene and MspI for the bGH gene. We examined the relationship between the PRL-RsaI and bGH-MspI polymorphisms and some economically important characteristics of Holstein cows. Research was conducted on 315 Holstein cows from 5 municipalities in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia.

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