Animal Biotechnology
Marker-Assisted Selection and Breeding

UC Davis - The University of California, Davis

Alison L Van Eenennaam

Cattlemen to Cattlemen streaming video (05/08)

"No Bull" Discussion on Genetic Markers (5/08)

DNA Markers: Explanation of Validation and Utilization (2007)

Van Eenennaam, A. L. 2006. “DNA-Based Biotechnologies” Pages 66-73 in the National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium Beef Sire Selection Manual (2006)

Marker-Assisted Selection in Beef Cattle Handout (4/07)

Marker-Assisted Selection in Beef Cattle Slide Show

Marker-Assisted Selection DNA Backgrounder Handout

Peer-reviewed studies on current commercial DNA marker tests
National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium


NBCEC Beef Sire Selection Manual - National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium (2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Companies

Biogenetic Services
Cattle: Parentage, freemartin, coat color, leptin, meat quality, BSE resistance, Johne’s disease
Sheep: Scrapie, Spider lamb syndrome
Fish: Whirling disease 

Bovigen
Cattle: GeneSTAR® Quality Grade, GeneSTAR® Tenderness 2, GeneSTAR Feed Efficiency, GeneSTAR® BLACK, parentage, identity tracking
 

GeneSeek
Sheep: Scrapie

Cattle: Parentage, coat color, Seek-Black, Seek-Tender, bovine viral diarrhea (BVD-PI), identity tracking 

Swine: Parentage, RN gene, porcine stress syndrome, breed purity 

Genetic Visions
Cattle: Coat color, Prolactin (CMP), BLAD, Citrullinemia, DUMPS, Kappa-Casein, Beta-lactoglobulin, Complex Vertebral Malformation (CVM), Calpain 316/530, Freemartin
 

GenMark
Sheep: Scrapie, Spider lamb syndrome

Cattle: Parentage, coat color, BLAD, Citrullinemia, MSUD, Kappa-Casein, Beta-lactoglobulin, AlphaS1-casein, Piedmontese Myostatin 

Igenity
Cattle: 
Igenity Profile Analysis (tenderness, marbling, quality grade, fat thickness, ribeye area, hot carcass weight, yield grade, heifer pregnancy rate, stayability, calving ease, weaning weight and docility), DoubleBLACK coat color, horned-polled, bovine viral diarrhea (BVD-PI), identity tracking, parentage

MMI Genomics
Cattle: Parentage, Tru-Marbling™, Tru-Tenderness™, MMIG Homozygous Black, polled/horned

Repro Tec Inc.
Cattle: Fertility Associated Antigen (FAA)
 

Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (UC Davis)
Cattle: Parentage, freemartin
Other livestock species: parentage 

Viagen
Cattle: Breed identification (AnguSure)

   
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