Article
Inbreeding, effective population size, and coancestry in the Latxa dairy sheep breed.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jun 2020
Granado-Tajada I, Rodríguez-Ramilo S T, Legarra A, Ugarte E
Abstract excerpt
Traditionally, breeding programs have estimated and managed inbreeding based on pedigree information. The availability of genomic marker panels has made possible new alternatives to achieve more precise estimates, for example in case of missing pedigree. The objective of the present study was to assess and compare, different estimation methods (pedigree-based methodologies, single SNP-based approach...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Genome
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Inbreeding
- Male
- Pedigree
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Population Density
- Sheep
