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A crossbred reference population can improve the response to genomic selection for crossbred performance.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 29 Sept 2015
Esfandyari Hadi, Sørensen Anders Christian, Bijma Piter
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Breeding goals in a crossbreeding system should be defined at the commercial crossbred level. However, selection is often performed to improve purebred performance. A genomic selection (GS) model that includes dominance effects can be used to select purebreds for crossbred performance. Optimization of the GS model raises the question of whether marker effects should be estimated from data on the pure...
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