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Are evaluations on young genotyped animals benefiting from the past generations?
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2014
Lourenco D A L, Misztal I, Tsuruta S, Aguilar I, Lawlor T J, Forni S, Weller J I
Abstract excerpt
Data sets of US Holsteins, Israeli Holsteins, and pigs from PIC (a Genus company, Hendersonville, TN) were used to evaluate the effect of different numbers of generations on ability to predict genomic breeding values of young genotyped animals. The influence of including only 2 generations of ancestors (A2) or all ancestors (Af) was also investigated. A total of 34,506 US Holsteins, 1,305 Israeli Holsteins, and...
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