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Genetic and Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Yearling Weight Gain in Israel Holstein Dairy Calves.
Genes - 10 May 2021
Gershoni Moran, Weller Joel Ira, Ezra Ephraim
Abstract excerpt
Yearling weight gain in male and female Israeli Holstein calves, defined as 365 × ((weight - 35)/age at weight) + 35, was analyzed from 814,729 records on 368,255 animals from 740 herds recorded between 1994 and 2021. The variance components were calculated based on valid records from 2008 through 2017 for each sex separately and both sexes jointly by a single-trait individual animal model analysis, which...
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