TY - JOUR AU - Cai, Zexi AU - Guldbrandtsen, Bernt AU - Lund, Mogens Sandø AU - Sahana, Goutam PY - 2018 DA - 2018/05/11 TI - RETRACTED ARTICLE: Dissecting closely linked association signals in combination with the mammalian phenotype database can identify candidate genes in dairy cattle JO - BMC Genetics SP - 30 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successfully implemented in cattle research and breeding. However, moving from the associations to identifying the causal variants and revealing underlying mechanisms have proven complicated. In dairy cattle populations, we face a challenge due to long-range linkage disequilibrium (LD) arising from close familial relationships in the studied individuals. Long range LD makes it difficult to distinguish if one or multiple quantitative trait loci (QTL) are segregating in a genomic region showing association with a phenotype. We had two objectives in this study: 1) to distinguish between multiple QTL segregating in a genomic region, and 2) use of external information to prioritize candidate genes for a QTL along with the candidate variant. SN - 1471-2156 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-018-0620-0 DO - 10.1186/s12863-018-0620-0 ID - Cai2018 ER -