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The genetic background for the incidence of and resistance/susceptibility to mastitis is briefly reviewed. A Danish research project on genetic resistance to mastitis is described. The main results show that the heritability for incidence of clinical mastitis is low (0.03), that clinical mastitis and somatic cell count are highly genetic correlated (0.81) and that the genetic correlation between incidence of clinical mastitis and butter fat yield is unfavourable (0.66). Several teat traits have favourable genetic correlations with incidence of clinical
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Madsen, P. (1989). Genetic Resistance to Bovine Mastitis. In: Improving Genetic Disease Resistance in Farm Animals. Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1057-7_19
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