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Modeling heterotic effects in beef cattle using genome-wide SNP-marker genotypes.
Journal of animal science - 3 Apr 2018
Akanno Everestus C, Abo-Ismail Mohammed K, Chen Liuhong, Crowley John J, Wang Zhiquan, Li Changxi, Basarab John A, MacNeil Michael D, Plastow Graham S
Abstract excerpt
An objective of commercial beef cattle crossbreeding programs is to simultaneously optimize use of additive (breed differences) and non-additive (heterosis) effects. A total of 6,794 multibreed and crossbred beef cattle with phenotype and Illumina BovineSNP50 genotype data were used to predict genomic heterosis for growth and carcass traits by applying two methods assumed to be linearly proportional to heterosis....
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