Bayesian segregation analysis of milk flow in Swiss dairy cattle using Gibbs sampling

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 563-576

  Ilahi, Houcine ^a   Kadarmideen, Haja N ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian method; Major gene; Milk flow; Segregation analysis; Swiss cattle

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CATTLE; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; LACTATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRYING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MILK; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRYING; FEMALE; LACTATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

BOS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 4644257148     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2004017     Document Type: Article

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