Patent ID: 8105776

Claim:
A method for identifying a bovine animal having Polled phenotype, as compared to a general population of bovine animals, comprising: (a) obtaining a biological sample from said bovine animal; (b) subjecting the sample to nucleotide sequence analysis to obtain sufficient nucleotide sequence information to provide the identity of the nucleotides at positions corresponding to the following SEQ ID NO: 43 positions: 1356048, 1872077, 1872200, 2101528, 2214142, 2220054, 2220178, 2225310, 2288436, 2332892, 2333140, 2338338, 2816109, 2816370, 1013610, 1352705, 1352905, 1431709, 1438531, 1731905, 2128551, 2640799, 2648129, 2650867, 2651006, 2657651, 2676311, and 2820224; (c) detecting in said animal a haplotype of the alleles present at at least three nucleotides or a genotype of the alleles present at at least five nucleotides, wherein the at least three or at least five nucleotides in the haplotype or the genotype are nucleotides detected at the positions analyzed in part (b), wherein said haplotype or said genotype is sufficient to conclude that the animal will exhibit the Polled phenotype; (d) identifying the animal as having the Polled phenotype based on the presence the haplotype comprised of at least three of said positions or the genotype comprised of at least five positions.