Franz R. Seefried

This study identifies lactation-stage specific QTL for milk urea concentration in dairy cattle breeds, highlighting pleiotropic effects and candidate genes.

This study identifies inbreeding depression on stature in Brown Swiss cattle and discovers a recessive QTL linked to a splice donor variant in ABCC6.

The paper performs genome-wide association studies in cattle to identify QTL for stature and mammary gland morphology, finding pleiotropic effects of the Friesian POLLED haplotype on mammary traits.

The paper identifies a 1-bp deletion in QRICH2 as a recessive cause of low sperm count and immotile sperm with morphological abnormalities in Brown Swiss bulls.