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Prediction of expected genetic variation within groups of offspring for innovative mating schemes.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 2 Jul 2014
Segelke Dierck, Reinhardt Friedrich, Liu Zengting, Thaller Georg
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BACKGROUND: Experience from progeny-testing indicates that the mating of popular bull sires that have high estimated breeding values with excellent dams does not guarantee the production of offspring with superior breeding values. This is explained partly by differences in the standard deviation of gamete breeding values (SDGBV) between animals at the haplotype level. The SDGBV depends on the variance of the true...
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