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Production of hornless dairy cattle from genome-edited cell lines

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Figure 1: Phenotypic and genotypic confirmation of POLLED introgression in Spotigy and Buri.

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D.F.C., C.A.L., E.S.K., T.S.S. and S.C.F. are employees of Recombinetics; D.F.C., C.A.L., E.S.K., M.W., T.S.S. and S.C.F. are shareholders in Recombinetics.

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Carlson, D., Lancto, C., Zang, B. et al. Production of hornless dairy cattle from genome-edited cell lines. Nat Biotechnol 34, 479–481 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3560

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