Inbreeding depression for global and partial economic indexes, production, type, and functional traits.

doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72297-4

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Inbreeding depression for global and partial economic indexes, production, type, and functional traits.

Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2006

Croquet C, Mayeres P, Gillon A, Vanderick S, Gengler N

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The objective of this research was to examine the effects of inbreeding in the population of Holstein cattle in the Walloon region of Belgium. The effects of inbreeding on the global economic index and its components were studied by using data from the genetic evaluations of February 2004 for production, somatic cell score (SCS), computed from somatic cell counts and type. Inbreeding coefficients for 956,516...

Topics

Animals
Breeding
Cattle
Cell Count
Dairying
Female
Fertility
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Inbreeding
Lactation
Longevity
Mastitis, Bovine
Milk
Models, Genetic
Pedigree
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait, Heritable

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PMID: 16702293
DOI: 10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(06)72297-4

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