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Genomic evaluation by including dominance effects and inbreeding depression for purebred and crossbred performance with an application in pigs.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 25 Nov 2016
Xiang Tao, Christensen Ole Fredslund, Vitezica Zulma Gladis, Legarra Andres
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BACKGROUND: Improved performance of crossbred animals is partly due to heterosis. One of the major genetic bases of heterosis is dominance, but it is seldom used in pedigree-based genetic evaluation of livestock. Recently, a trivariate genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) model including dominance was developed, which can distinguish purebreds from crossbred animals explicitly. The objectives of this...
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