Combining cow and bull reference populations to increase accuracy of genomic prediction and genome-wide association studies

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 6703-6715

  Calus, M P L ^a   de Haas, Y ^a   Veerkamp, R F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; Genomic selection; Multitrait; Reference population

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINAE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; CATTLE; FEMALE; GENOME; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884357067     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2012-6013     Document Type: Article

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