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Improving accuracy of bulls' predicted genomic breeding values for fertility using daughters' milk progesterone profiles.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2018
Tenghe A M M, Bouwman A C, Berglund B, de Koning D J, Veerkamp R F
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The main objective of this study was to investigate the benefit of accuracy of genomic prediction when combining records for an intermediate physiological phenotype in a training population with records for a traditional phenotype. Fertility was used as a case study, where commencement of luteal activity (C-LA) was the physiological phenotype, whereas the interval from calving to first service and calving...
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