Li, Jiyuan
Mukiibi, Robert
Wang, Yining
Plastow, Graham S.
Li, Changxi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Genome Alberta and AAF project (GAB-A3GP37, GAB-A3GP37, GAB-A3GP37, GAB-A3GP37, GAB-A3GP37)
European Commission project BovReg (815668, 815668, 815668, 815668, 815668)
Article History
Received: 8 March 2021
Accepted: 7 October 2021
First Online: 15 November 2021
Declarations
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: 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-002320). This study was carried out in compliance with the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research [CitationRef removed].
: Not applicable.
: CL serves as an Editorial Board Member for BMC Genomics. Beyond this association, the authors declare that they have no competing interests.