(Springer Nature, 2019-03-07) Liu, Mei; Fang, Lingzhao; Liu, Shuli; Pan, Michael G.; Seroussi, Eyal; Cole, John B.; Ma, Li; Chen, Hong; Liu, George E.
Copy number variations (CNVs) are structural variants consisting of large-scale insertions and deletions of genomic fragments. Exploring CNVs and estimating their effects on phenotypes are useful for genome selection but remain challenging in the livestock.
(Springer Nature, 2019-08-28) Seroussi, Eyal; Shirak, Andrey; Gershoni, Moran; Ezra, Ephraim; Santos, Daniel Jordan de Abreu; Ma, Li; Liu, George E.
Crossover localization during meiotic recombination is mediated by the fast-evolving zinc-finger (ZnF) domain of gene PRDM9. To study its impact on dairy cattle performance, we compared its genetic variation between the relatively small Israeli (IL) Holsteins and the North American (US) Holsteins that count millions.
