Clare A. Gill

TL;DR: To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage and provides a resource for understanding mammalian evolution and accelerating livestock genetic improvement for milk and meat production.

TL;DR: Data show that cattle have undergone a rapid recent decrease in effective population size from a very large ancestral population, possibly due to bottlenecks associated with domestication, selection, and breed formation.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that 30,000–50,000 loci will be needed to conduct whole genome association studies in cattle, based on a much larger sample of marker loci and across eight breeds of cattle.

TL;DR: Associations between 3 commercially available genetic marker panels and quantitative beef traits were validated by the US National Beef Cattle Evaluation Consortium to be the independent confirmation of the associations between genetic tests and phenotypes.

TL;DR: This work presents the first high-resolution analysis of haplotype block structure in worldwide cattle samples, revealing unexpected similarities between some beef and dairy breeds, and suggesting that ~30,000 uniformly distributed SNPs would be necessary to construct a complete genome LD map in Bos taurus breeds and ~580,000 SNP would be needed to characterize the haplotypes block structure across the complete cattle genome.