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Multibreed genomic evaluations using purebred Holsteins, Jerseys, and Brown Swiss.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Sept 2012
Olson K M, VanRaden P M, Tooker M E
Abstract excerpt
Multibreed models are currently used in traditional US Department of Agriculture (USDA) dairy cattle genetic evaluations of yield and health traits, but within-breed models are used in genomic evaluations. Multibreed genomic models were developed and tested using the 19,686 genotyped bulls and cows included in the official August 2009 USDA genomic evaluation. The data were divided into training and validation...
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