Article
Effect of cow reference group on validation reliability of genomic evaluation.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2016
Koivula M, Strandén I, Aamand G P, Mäntysaari E A
Abstract excerpt
We studied the effect of including genomic data for cows in the reference population of single-step evaluations. Deregressed individual cow genetic evaluations (DRP) from milk production evaluations of Nordic Red Dairy cattle were used to estimate the single-step breeding values. Validation reliability and bias of the evaluations were calculated with four data sets including different amount of DRP record...
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