Effects of preselection of genotyped animals on reliability and bias of genomic prediction in dairy cattle

Objective Models for genomic selection assume that the reference population is an unselected population. However, in practice, genotyped individuals, such as progeny-tested bulls, are highly selected, and the reference population is created after preselection. In dairy cattle, the intensity of selec...

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Main Authors: Kenji Togashi, Kazunori Adachi, Kazuhito Kurogi, Takanori Yasumori, Kouichi Tokunaka, Atsushi Ogino, Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Toshio Watanabe, Tsutomu Takahashi, Kimihiro Moribe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies 2019-02-01
Series:Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.ajas.info/upload/pdf/ajas-18-0161.pdf