Review: How to improve genomic predictions in small dairy cattle populations

This paper reviews strategies and methods to improve accuracies of genomic predictions from the perspective of a numerically small population. Improvements are realized by influencing one or both of the main factors: (1) improve or increase genomic connections to phenotypic records in training data....

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Main Authors: M.S. Lund, I. van den Berg, P. Ma, R.F. Brøndum, G. Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731115003031