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Estimation of the environmental dam-offspring correlation in beef cattle.
Journal of animal science - 1 Jun 2015
Munilla S, Cantet R J C
Abstract excerpt
A long standing controversy in animal breeding is related to the strong negative estimates of the direct-maternal genetic correlation obtained when fitting data on maternally influenced traits. In this article, we focused on a model that introduces a new correlation parameter among dam-offspring records. The extant theory allows estimation of the parameter when dams have at most a single offspring. Our goal was...
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