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Consequences of paternally inherited effects on the genetic evaluation of maternal effects.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 13 Aug 2015
Varona Luis, Munilla Sebastián, Casellas Joaquim, Moreno Carlos, Altarriba Juan
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BACKGROUND: Mixed models are commonly used for the estimation of variance components and genetic evaluation of livestock populations. Some evaluation models include two types of additive genetic effects, direct and maternal. Estimates of variance components obtained with models that account for maternal effects have been the subject of a long-standing controversy about strong negative estimates of the covariance...
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