Scaling linear-model breeding values to the liability scale: an application to pig binary traits.

Abstract excerpt

In commercial pig production, many important traits are recorded as binary phenotypes. For such traits, threshold models offer an appropriate framework but are computationally intensive. Thus, linear models are widely used to obtain genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV); however, these are on the observed scale (phenotypic). This creates the need for a robust method to approximate GEBV from linear models to...

Topics

• Animals
• Breeding
• Linear Models
• Female
• Phenotype
• Swine