Estimation of segregation variance for birth weight in beef cattle

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 27-35

  Birchmeier, A N ^a   Cantet, R J C ^a,b   Fernando, R L ^c   Morris, C A ^d   Holgado, F ^e   Jara, A ^f   Santos Cristal, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Beef cattle; Composite population; REML; Segregation variance

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0036331346     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(02)00013-1     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Prediction of breeding values with additive animal models for crosses from two populations
2. Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the EM algorithm
3. Experimental approaches in utilizing breed resources
4. Inbreeding and heterosis in animals
5. Recursive procedures to compute the inverse of the multiple trait additive genetic covariance matrix in inbred and noninbred multibreed populations
6. Covariance components and prediction for additive and nonadditive preweaning growth genetic effects in an Angus-Brahman multibreed herd
7. A simple argument showing how to derive restricted maximum likelihood
8. Heterogeneous variances in Gaussian linear mixed models
9. Maximum-Likelihood approaches to variance component estimation and to related problems
10. Dominance and epistasis as components of heterosis
11. REML estimation: Asympthotic behavior and related topics
12. Restricted maximum likelihood estimation of variance components for univariate animal models using sparse matrix techniques and average information
13. The minimum number of genes contributing to quantitative variation between and within populations
14. Genotypic covariance between relatives in multibreed populations: Additive model
15. Theory for modelling means and covariances in a two-breed population with dominance inheritance
16. Genetic evaluation by BLUP in two-breed terminal crossbreeding systems under dominance
17. Rotation crosses and inter se matings with Angus and Hereford cattle for five generations
18. Recovery of inter-block information when block sizes are unequal
19. Computing the diagonal elements and inverse of a large numerator relationship matrix
20. Additive models with groups and relationships
21. Marginal-likelihood score-based tests of regression disturbances in the presence of nuisance parameters
22. Asymptotic properties of maximun likelihood estimators and likelihood ratio test under nonstandard conditions
23. Linear mixed models in practice