Article
Potential improvements in rate of genetic gain from marker-assisted selection in dairy cattle breeding schemes.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 1992
Meuwissen T H, Van Arendonk J A
Abstract excerpt
The value of marker-assisted selection in dairy cattle breeding schemes is predicted by a deterministic model. In these schemes, associations between markers and milk production were assessed from production records of daughters of a grandsire by a multiple regression model with random marker effects. By tracing markers from the grandsire to grandoffspring, deviations of grandoffspring from their full-sib family...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Dairying
- Embryo Transfer
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Models, Genetic
- Regression Analysis