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A robust method for simultaneous estimation of single gene and polygenic effects in dairy cows using externally estimated breeding values as prior information.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Aug 2010
Buske B, Szydlowski M, Gengler N
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to develop a robust method to estimate single gene and random polygenic animal effects simultaneously in a small field dataset with limited pedigree information. The new method was based on a Bayesian approach using additional prior information on the distribution of externally estimated breeding values. The field dataset consisted of 40,269 test-day records for milk performance traits...
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