Economic weights for restriction of selection index as optimal strategy for combining multiple traits.

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Presently, selection indices combine EBV belonging to many phenotypes accounting for production and functional traits. In this situation, ensuring positive genetic trends becomes difficult, especially when an antagonistic genetic relationship between traits exists. For this reason, guaranteeing zero genetic progress for some traits could be advantageous, as it would allow maximization of the productive...

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