Zhang, Feng
Wang, Yining
Mukiibi, Robert
Chen, Liuhong
Vinsky, Michael
Plastow, Graham
Basarab, John
Stothard, Paul
Li, Changxi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0092-7047
Funding for this research was provided by:
Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (2014F047R)
Article History
Received: 21 June 2019
Accepted: 2 December 2019
First Online: 13 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Data on the animals used in this study were collected in previous projects and all the animals were cared for according to the guidelines established by the Canadian Council on Animal Care (1993) and approved by local animal user committees including University of Alberta Faculty Animal Policy and Welfare Committee (2002-46B for the Bovine Genome Project and AUP00000777 for the Kinsella Breeding Project) and the AAFC Lacombe Research Center Animal Care Committee (200703 and 200807 for the Phenomic Gap Project). The reference sequence data for imputation were obtained from the 1000 bull genomes project under the Canadian Cattle Genome Project. The study was approved by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Lacombe Research Proposal Review committee (J-000960).
: Not applicable.
: PS serves as an Associate Editor for BMC Genomics. Beyond this association, the authors declare that they have no competing interests.