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Within-herd heritability estimated with daughter-parent regression for yield and somatic cell score.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2007
Dechow C D, Norman H D
Abstract excerpt
Estimates of heritability within herd (h(WH)(2) ) that were generated with daughter-dam regression, daughter-sire regression, and REML were compared, and effects of adjusting lactation records for within-herd heritability on genetic evaluations were evaluated. Holstein records for milk, fat, and protein yields and somatic cell score (SCS) from the USDA national database represented herds in the US Northeast,...
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