Genetic analysis of domestic animals demonstrates the feasibility of marker-assisted selection of economically important traits and may foreshadow good things to come (other than better bacon) for human geneticists.
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Ivinson, A. Taking the bull by the horns. Nature 363, 473 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/363473a0
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