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About the Author:
Tamar Crum
Tamar Crum is a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri. This research is part of a study entitled “Inference of Admixture for Cattle with Complex Ancestry�. This article was written as part of a Walton-Berry Award given to the Decker Genomics Group at the University of Missouri, which paid for four graduate students to attend the Beef Improvement Federation Conference held in Athens, GA, in June 2017. T
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Figure 2: Genetic profiles for 238 crossbred animals. Breed identification is shown by color and each animal is a vertical line within the figure. The key indicates which color corresponds to which ancestral breed. The animals shown are mostly Angus and Simmental.
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