The impact of genomic relatedness between populations on the genomic estimated breeding values

Abstract In genomic selection, prediction accuracy is highly driven by the size of animals in the reference population (RP). Combining related populations from different countries and regions or using a related population with large size of RP has been considered to be viable strategies in cattle br...

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Main Authors: Peipei Ma, Ju Huang, Weijia Gong, Xiujin Li, Hongding Gao, Qin Zhang, Xiangdong Ding, Chonglong Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40104-018-0279-4