Comparison between estimation of breeding values and fixed effects using Bayesian and empirical BLUP estimation under selection on parents and missing pedigree information

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-59

  Schenkel, Flávio S ^a   Schaeffer, Lawrence R ^a   Boettcher, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Breeding value; Empirical BLUP; Gibbs sampling; Selection

Indexed keywords

BREEDING;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SELECTION BIAS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036010950     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2001003     Document Type: Article

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