Blood was collected from 791 Japanese Black cows. Genomic DNA was extracted using the Easy-DNA kit (Invitrogen, Cat. #K1800–01). All samples were genotyped using the BovineHD BeadChip Array (Illumina, Cat. #WG-450-1002) [41 (link)]. SNPs genotype calling were performed using GenomeStudio V2011 (Illumina, version 1.9.4). The ARS-UCD1.2 assembly was used to map the SNP position [42 ]. CNVR was detected as previously reported [15 (link)], using PennCNV software (version June 2011) [43 (link)].
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