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Genetic evaluation of beef carcass data using different endpoint adjustments.
Journal of animal science - 1 May 2007
Rumph J M, Shafer W R, Crews D H, Enns R M, Lipsey R J, Quaas R L, Pollak E J
Abstract excerpt
Carcass data from 6,795 Simmental-sired animals born from 1992 to 2001 were used to determine whether adjustment to a constant age, back-fat, HCW, or marbling score would result in differences in heritability of the carcass traits and, correspondingly, if EPD calculated using those variance components and adjustments would result in sire reranking. The endpoints were age (EPA), backfat (EPF), HCW (EPC), or...
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