Thomas Johnson

The paper identifies and validates copy number variation in dairy cattle using linked-read and short-read sequencing, finding 7218 high-confidence CNV regions with strong inheritance evidence.

The paper identifies novel recessive loci affecting lactation traits in cattle using non-additive QTL mapping on 124,000 sequence-imputed cows, revealing differences in genetic architecture between milk yield and composition traits.

The paper re-examines the mechanism of the DGAT1 K232A mutation in bovine milk production, showing it modulates gene expression through splicing enhancement.

The paper identifies multiple QTL at the CSF2RB locus associated with milk yield and composition traits in dairy cattle and explores their genetic and molecular mechanisms.