Genome-wide association study revealed suggestive QTLs for production and reproduction traits in Indian Murrah buffalo.

The present study was aimed to identify the genome-wide SNPs associated with production and reproduction traits in 96 Indian Murrah buffalo genotyped based on ddRAD approach using Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) along with phenotypes of contemporary animals using mixed linear model for production and reproduction traits. A total of 27,735 SNPs identified using ddRAD approach in 96 Indian Murrah buffaloes were used for GWAS. A total of 28 SNPs were found to be associated with production and reproductive traits.