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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:milk somatic cell quantity
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Accession:VT:1000072 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion or number of somatic cells (leukocytes and epithelial cells) in milk; a high number is an indicator of mastitis.
Synonyms:related_synonym: milk somatic cell count;   somatic cell score
 xref: ATOL:0000991



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  vertebrate trait 2888
    organ system trait 1978
      endocrine/exocrine system trait 162
        gland morphology trait 157
          mammary gland morphology trait 87
            mammary gland secreted fluid morphology trait 0
              milk trait 0
                milk somatic cell quantity 0
                  milk epithelial cell quantity 0
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  vertebrate trait 2888
    organ system trait 1978
      reproductive system trait 109
        reproductive system morphology trait 109
          female reproductive system morphology trait 97
            mammary gland morphology trait 87
              mammary gland secreted fluid morphology trait 0
                milk trait 0
                  milk somatic cell quantity 0
                    milk epithelial cell quantity 0
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