Ms. Ashwell et Cp. Van Tassell, Detection of putative loci affecting milk, health, and type traits in a USHolstein population using 70 microsatellite markers in a genome scan, J DAIRY SCI, 82(11), 1999, pp. 2497-2502
Quantitative trait loci affecting milk yield, health, and type traits were
studied for seven large U.S. Holstein grandsire families using the granddau
ghter design. Seventy microsatellite markers located throughout the genome
were selected for the quantitative trait loci scan. Effects of marker allel
es were analyzed for 30 traits (21 type traits, 5 milk traits, 2 calving ea
se traits, and somatic cell score and productive life) and 16 canonical tra
its derived from type and production traits. Previously ave reported result
s from 36 of these markers but have re-evaluated those results using a more
robust analysis method. We report results from all 70 markers using permut
ation tests to calculate experiment-wise significance values, replacing the
less stringent comparison-wise values previously reported. With this new m
ethodology we detected 9 putative quantitative trait loci within specific f
amilies. Four markers were associated with effects on type traits on chromo
somes 4, 5, 14, and 23. Two markers were associated with effects on protein
percentage on chromosomes 6 and 14, and 3 markers were associated with eff
ects on productive life on chromosomes 2, 21, and 23. Although these initia
l 70 microsatellite markers have been completed in the 7 Holstein families,
additional markers will need to be added to allow interval analysis of are
as where putative QTL have been identified and to increase marker density w
here needed.