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Genetic evaluation in the presence of uncertain additive relationships. I. Use of phenotypic information to ascertain paternity.
Journal of animal science - 1 Oct 2007
Sapp R L, Zhang W, Bertrand J K, Rekaya R
Abstract excerpt
A simulation was carried out to investigate the implementation of a genetic evaluation when the additive relationship matrix is not completely known due to the presence of uncertain paternity in the pedigree. Data were simulated and analyzed using a linear mixed model that included a fixed contemporary group effect plus random additive and residual effects. For the univariate scenario, either 1 or 2 records of a...
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