Relationship between individual herd-heritability estimates and sire misidentification rate

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1640-1647

  Dechow, C D ^a   Norman, H D ^b   Zwald, N R ^c   Cowan, C M ^d   Meland, O M ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c Alta Genetics Inc   (United States)

^d Genetic Visions Inc   (United States)

^e Accelerated Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Daughter dam regression; Heritability; Sire misidentification

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032068490     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2007-0534     Document Type: Article

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