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. 2016 Jul 12;113(28):7690-2.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1608144113. Epub 2016 Jun 29.

Holsteins are the genomic selection poster cows

Jeremy F Taylor  1 , Kristen H Taylor  2 , Jared E Decker  3
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Holsteins are the genomic selection poster cows

Jeremy F Taylor et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Annual numbers of citations of Meuwissen et al. (1), rate of genetic improvement in milk production from García-Ruiz et al. (3), and numbers of Holstein cows chip-genotyped by December of each year from the Council for Dairy Cattle Breeding database (https://www.cdcb.us/Genotype/cur_density.html).
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