PRIORITIZING CANDIDATE GENES POST-GWAS USING MULTIPLE SOURCES OF DATA FOR MASTITIS RESISTANCE IN DAIRY CATTLE

Prioritizing candidate genes post-GWAS using multiple sources of data for mastitis resistance in dairy cattle

Abstract Background Improving resistance to mastitis, one of the costliest diseases in dairy production, has become an important objective in dairy cattle breeding.However, mastitis resistance is influenced by many genes involved in multiple processes, including the response to infection, inflammation, and post-infection healing.Low genetic heritab

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Stochastic modeling of mortality rates and Mortality-at-Risk forecast by taking conditional heteroscedasticity effect into account

Mortality and mortality rate have become the major issues Combs in insurance industries, for instance, life insurance and pension fund.Such industries will, in particular, be concerned with the quantification of risk attached, say longevity risk, to insurance products that may receive severe impacts from the fall of mortality rate.In this paper, we

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