I would like to thank Mohammad Ghaderzadeh for sharing with us the Persian translation of a review paper on “next generation sequencing in livestock Species” written by Sharm et al. (2017). In total, the paper is prepared in three sections: 1) An introduction to NGS. 2) Role of NGS in livestock diseases and other complex […]

You may have heard Surrogate mother, but it was my first time that I heard Surrogate Sire. A Surrogate mother is a woman who bears a child on behalf of another woman, either from the implantation in her uterus of a fertilized egg from the other couple or from her own egg fertilized by the […]

Recently a paper published in cell by Boyle et al. (2017) grabbed my attention. In this paper authors noted “for complex traits, association signals tend to be spread across most of the genome—including near many genes without an obvious connection to disease. We propose that gene regulatory networks are sufficiently interconnected such that all genes […]

Through an analysis of the posts published on my website (http://geneticz.ir/) and also my previous weblog (http://geneticz.blogfa.com/) from 2008 to 2019, I found that the top five terms most frequently used in the posts were animal, Genetics, Gene, Selection and practical. Using world cloud analysis, it is possible to visualize the frequency of specific words […]

I have recently given a talk at the Animal Genetics & Genomics seminar series at the University of Florida. The participants told me how much they enjoyed it. I hear that quite a bit. So, I concluded that I must leave the academia and move to the entertainment business. The title of my talk was […]

As you know, in dairy bull evaluation forms, we have a metric called Total Performance Index (TPI). TPI is a method of ranking bulls according to a linear function. It seeks to identify bulls who excel in three categories: production, health and conformation. TPI selects elite bulls who represent the best combination of desired traits. […]