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Short communication: Analysis of genomic predictor population for Holstein dairy cattle in the United States--Effects of sex and age.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Apr 2015
Cooper T A, Wiggans G R, VanRaden P M
Abstract excerpt
Increased computing time for the ever-growing predictor population and linkage decay between the ancestral population and current animals have become concerns for genomic evaluation systems. The effects on reliability of US genomic evaluations from including cows and bulls in the Holstein predictor population and also from excluding older bulls from the predictor population were examined. Holstein data collected...
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