Freebern, Ellen
Santos, Daniel J. A.
Fang, Lingzhao
Jiang, Jicai
Parker Gaddis, Kristen L.
Liu, George E.
VanRaden, Paul M.
Maltecca, Christian
Cole, John B.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (2016-67015-24886, 2018-67015-28128)
United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (US-4997-17)
Article History
Received: 3 September 2019
Accepted: 7 January 2020
First Online: 13 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) approved data access and the research, which was conducted on USDA-AGIL computers using the national database shared jointly by CDCB and AGIL under a non-funded cooperative agreement: .
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.