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Improvement of prediction ability for genomic selection of dairy cattle by including dominance effects.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Sun Chuanyu, VanRaden Paul M, Cole John B, O'Connell Jeffrey R
Abstract excerpt
Dominance may be an important source of non-additive genetic variance for many traits of dairy cattle. However, nearly all prediction models for dairy cattle have included only additive effects because of the limited number of cows with both genotypes and phenotypes. The role of dominance in the Holstein and Jersey breeds was investigated for eight traits: milk, fat, and protein yields; productive life; daughter...
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