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April 2023 Evaluation Changes: What’s New?

CDCB

March 7, 2023

The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding and USDA Animal Genomics Improvement Laboratory are implementing a series of changes with the triannual U.S. evaluations on April…


Brown Swiss Fertility Haplotype BH14

USDA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory

March 7, 2023

By Paul VanRaden, Dan Null and Norm Magnussen Switzerland in 2022 began reporting a new lethal haplotype in Brown Swiss (BH14) that causes early pregnancy…


Accreditation for Parentage Verification Extended by ICAR

CDCB

February 10, 2023

CDCB has been re-accredited as a DNA Data Interpretation Center for parentage verification by ICAR, the International Committee for Animal Recording. This certification is part…


Announcing QDisc

Ezequiel Nicolazzi

February 10, 2023

By Ezequiel NicolazziCDCB announces a new service, QDisc, or quick discovery of close relatives. This quick-turnaround service uses the ICAR-defined parentage SNP to discover close relatives. This…