Article
Short communication: Improving accuracy of predicting breeding values in Brazilian Holstein population by adding data from Nordic and French Holstein populations.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2016
Li X, Lund M S, Zhang Q, Costa C N, Ducrocq V, Su G
Abstract excerpt
The present study investigated the improvement of prediction reliabilities for 3 production traits in Brazilian Holsteins that had no genotype information by adding information from Nordic and French Holstein bulls that had genotypes. The estimated across-country genetic correlations (ranging from 0.604 to 0.726) indicated that an important genotype by environment interaction exists between Brazilian and Nordic...
Topics
- Animals
- Brazil
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Female
- France
- Genotype
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Pedigree
- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
