A reduced animal model approach to predicting total additive genetic merit for marker-assisted selection

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-34

  Saito, S ^a   Iwaisaki, H ^a,b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

best linear unbiased prediction; combined numerator relationship matrix; marker assisted selection; reduced animal model; total additive genetic merit

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030986936     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:19970102     Document Type: Article

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