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Empirical determination of breed-of-origin of alleles in three-breed cross pigs.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 4 Aug 2016
Sevillano Claudia A, Vandenplas Jeremie, Bastiaansen John W M, Calus Mario P L
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BACKGROUND: Although breeding programs for pigs and poultry aim at improving crossbred performance, they mainly use training populations that consist of purebred animals. For some traits, e.g. residual feed intake, the genetic correlation between purebred and crossbred performance is low and thus including crossbred animals in the training population is required. With crossbred animals, the effects of single...
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