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Body trait profiles in Holstein-Friesians modeled using random regression.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Oct 2005
Wall E, Coffey M P, Brotherstone S
Abstract excerpt
Legendre polynomial and cubic spline functions were used in random regression models to model the change in body traits over the course of the first lactation for daughters of 954 sires. Both functions estimated similar genetic variances for d 50 to 250 across lactation for the majority of traits. The heritability of the traits was similar to other studies using univariate models as well as random regression...
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