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Prospects for statistical methods in animal breeding

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: Accurate prediction of breeding values is of great importance for animal improvement programmes. The prediction of breeding values requires knowledge of the magnitude of the variances and covariances of random effects. This paper gives a short review of methods of estimation of genetic variance parameters, contrasting analytical estimates with iterative and sampling based methods.

Source: Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository)

Authors: R. Thompson, Esa Mäntysaari

Language: English

Topic: Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2980583788

FWCI: 0.146

Cites: 35

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10