Effect of cow reference group on validation reliability of genomic evaluation

We studied the effect of including genomic data for cows in the reference population of single-step evaluations. Deregressed individual cow genetic evaluations (DRP) from milk production evaluations of Nordic Red Dairy cattle were used to estimate the single-step breeding values. Validation reliabil...

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Main Authors: M. Koivula, I. Strandén, G.P. Aamand, E.A. Mäntysaari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Animal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731115002864