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Segregation between breeds and local breed proportions in genetic and genomic models for crossbreds.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 5 Jul 2023
Eiríksson Jón H, Su Guosheng, Strandén Ismo, Christensen Ole F
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BACKGROUND: The breeding value of a crossbred individual can be expressed as the sum of the contributions from each of the contributing pure breeds. In theory, the breeding value should account for segregation between breeds, which results from the difference in the mean contribution of loci between breeds, which in turn is caused by differences in allele frequencies between breeds. However, with multiple...
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