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Principal component approach in variance component estimation for international sire evaluation.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 24 May 2011
Tyrisevä Anna-Maria, Meyer Karin, Fikse W Freddy, Ducrocq Vincent, Jakobsen Jette, Lidauer Martin H, Mäntysaari Esa A
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BACKGROUND: The dairy cattle breeding industry is a highly globalized business, which needs internationally comparable and reliable breeding values of sires. The international Bull Evaluation Service, Interbull, was established in 1983 to respond to this need. Currently, Interbull performs multiple-trait across country evaluations (MACE) for several traits and breeds in dairy cattle and provides international...
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