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Genomic analysis of the inbreeding load for body weight, carcass and reproductive traits in the Rubia Gallega beef cattle population.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 13 Mar 2026
Hervás-Rivero Carlos, López-Carbonell David, Sánchez-Díaz Manuel, Varona Luis
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BACKGROUND: Inbreeding, resulting from mating between relatives, leads to inbreeding depression, which can be traced back to hidden ancestral inbreeding loads. These loads exhibit variability and act as additive genetic effects that are only expressed in the inbred offspring. The objective of this study was to quantify the variance of the inbreeding loads and its correlation with additive genetic effects for...
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