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Blood group studies on cattle of Red Polish breed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1959

A. Neimann-Sørensen  and
A. Spryszak
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Blood samples from 262 Polish Red Cattle, 9 Danish Red Cattle and 123 cattle produced by crossing were examined for the presence of 45 erythrocyte antigenic factors.

The frequencies of most of the factors are given and estimates are made of the appropriate gene frequencies within the Polish Red breed as a whole.

Segregation of 42 B alleles was observed of which 9 have not previously been reported. The H′ factor hitherto recorded as marking an independent system is assigned to the SU system on genetical grounds and renamed S2.

It is concluded from the blood group data that the Polish Red breed has signs of a genetic relationship with Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss and Guernsey breeds but the relationship with the Danish Red breed is closer. The existence of the new alleles distinguish the Polish Red breed of cattle from all others investigated.

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Animal Production , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , September 1959 , pp. 179 - 188
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1959

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