Marker-assisted selection reduces expected inbreeding but can result in large effects of hitchhiking

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-198

  Pedersen, L D ^a,b,c   Sorensen A C ^a   Berg, P ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AgroTech Institute for Agro Technology and Food Innovation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Gene assisted selection; Hitchhiking; Inbreeding; Linkage drag; Marker assisted selection; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRYING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAIRYING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

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EID: 77954071525     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2009.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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