I abandoned my original career choice of high school teaching to pursue dentistry and soon abandoned that path for genetics. The latter decision was due to a challenge by a professor that led to me reading Nobel speeches by pioneer geneticists before I had formal exposure to the subject. Even then, I was 15 years into my career before my interest in rodent genomes gave way to mapping cattle genes. Events behind these twists and turns in my career path comprise the first part of this review. The remainder is a review of the development of the field of bovine genomics from my personal perspective. I have had the pleasure of working with outstanding graduate students, postdocs, and colleagues to contribute my small part to a discipline that has evolved from a few individuals mapping an orphan genome to a discipline underlying a revolution in animal breeding.

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映射基因对您有好处。

我放弃了最初的高中教学职业来选择牙科，而很快放弃了遗传学之路。后一个决定是由于一位教授的挑战，导致我在正式接触该主题之前先阅读了先驱遗传学家的诺贝尔演讲。即使到那时，我也只有15年的职业生涯，之后我对啮齿动物基因组的兴趣就让位于绘制牛基因。在我的职业道路上这些曲折背后的事件构成了这篇评论的第一部分。其余部分是从我个人的角度回顾牛基因组学领域的发展。我很高兴与优秀的研究生，博士后，