Multiple-breed genetic inference using heavy-tailed structural models for heterogeneous residual variances.

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Multiple-breed genetic models recently have been demonstrated to account for the heterogenous genetic variances that exist between different beef cattle breed groups. We extend these models to allow for residual heteroskedasticity (heterogeneous residual variances), specified as a function of fixed effects (e.g., sex, breed proportion, breed group heterozygosity) and random effects such as contemporary groups...

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