Upweighting rare favourable alleles increases long-term genetic gain in genomic selection programs

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Huiming ^a   Meuwissen, Theo He ^b   Sørensen, Anders C ^a   Berg, Peer ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Nordic Genetic Resource Center   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SELECTION;

ANIMALIA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928263080     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12711-015-0101-0     Document Type: Article

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