A proximal decomposition of inbreeding, coancestry and contributions

Genetics Research

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-198

  Colleau, Jean Jacques ^a   Sargolzaei, Mehdi ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INBREEDING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PLESIOMORPHY; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 42549169605     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672307009202     Document Type: Article

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