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Review: Opportunities and challenges for small populations of dairy cattle in the era of genomics.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2016
Schöpke K, Swalve H H
Abstract excerpt
In modern dairy cattle breeding, genomic breeding programs have the potential to increase efficiency and genetic gain. At the same time, the requirements and the availability of genotypes and phenotypes present a challenge. The set-up of a large enough reference population for genomic prediction is problematic for numerically small breeds but also for hard to measure traits. The first part of this study is a...
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