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Accounting for dominance to improve genomic evaluations of dairy cows for fertility and milk production traits.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Feb 2016
Aliloo Hassan, Pryce Jennie E, González-Recio Oscar, Cocks Benjamin G, Hayes Ben J
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BACKGROUND: Dominance effects may contribute to genetic variation of complex traits in dairy cattle, especially for traits closely related to fitness such as fertility. However, traditional genetic evaluations generally ignore dominance effects and consider additive genetic effects only. Availability of dense single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) panels provides the opportunity to investigate the role of...
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