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Comparison of joint versus purebred genomic evaluation in the French multi-breed dairy goat population.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 29 Oct 2014
Carillier Céline, Larroque Hélène, Robert-Granié Christèle
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BACKGROUND: All progeny-tested bucks from the two main French dairy goat breeds (Alpine and Saanen) were genotyped with the Illumina goat SNP50 BeadChip. The reference population consisted of 677 bucks and 148 selection candidates. With the two-step approach based on genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP), prediction accuracy of candidates did not outperform that of the parental average. We investigated...
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