Article
Genetic analysis of longitudinal data in beef cattle: a review.
Genetics and molecular research : GMR - 5 Jan 2010
Speidel S E, Enns R M, Crews D H
Abstract excerpt
Currently, many different data types are collected by beef cattle breed associations for the purpose of genetic evaluation. These data points are all biological characteristics of individual animals that can be measured multiple times over an animal's lifetime. Some traits can only be measured once on an individual animal, whereas others, such as the body weight of an animal as it grows, can be measured many...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Food Industry
- Genetic Variation
- Linear Models
- Longitudinal Studies
- Models, Statistical
- Multifactorial Inheritance