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A comparison of partial least squares (PLS) and sparse PLS regressions in genomic selection in French dairy cattle.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Apr 2012
Colombani C, Croiseau P, Fritz S, Guillaume F, Legarra A, Ducrocq V, Robert-Granié C
Abstract excerpt
Genomic selection involves computing a prediction equation from the estimated effects of a large number of DNA markers based on a limited number of genotyped animals with phenotypes. The number of observations is much smaller than the number of independent variables, and the challenge is to find methods that perform well in this context. Partial least squares regression (PLS) and sparse PLS were used with a...
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