Consensus and debate in the definition of breeding objectives.

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The breeding objective is usually to increase the profit of the firm, industry, or society that is investing in a breeding program. This objective should include long-term genetic gain and nonadditive genetic changes such as inbreeding depression and possibly a weighting against the variability of outcome. The breeding objective is described by a profit function that takes genetic values as input and produces...

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