We derived ML, pseudo-EM and pseudo-EM+ methods to estimate in many realistic settings. Estimates are accurate in real and simulated data and have a low computational cost.
Metafounders are a useful concept to characterize relationships within and across populations, and to help genetic evaluations because they help modelling the means and variances of unknown base population animals. Current definitions of metafounder …
This study integrated three types of omics data and identified a group of genes that have not previously been reported to be associated with BMI. This strategy could provide new insights for future studies to identify molecular mechanisms …
The loin muscle depth (LMD) is positively correlated with lean meat content and can therefore be used to estimate the lean meat content of pigs. The loin muscle depth is a quantitative trait that is influenced by whole-genome distributed polygenes. …
Dairy cattle production systems are mostly based on purebreds, but recently the use of crossbreeding has received increased interest. For genetic evaluations including crossbreds, several methods based on single-step genomic best linear unbiased …
At the beginning of genomic selection, some Chinese companies genotyped pigs with different single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays. The obtained genomic data are then combined and to do this, several imputation strategies have been developed. …
Joint genomic evaluation by combining data recordings and genomic information from different pig herds and populations is of interest for pig breeding companies because the efficiency of genomic selection (GS) could be further improved. In this work, …
Genetic analysis is a systematic and complex procedure in animal and plant breeding. With fast development of high-throughput genotyping techniques and algorithms, animal and plant breeding has entered into a genomic era. However, there is a lack of …
Semen traits are crucial in commercial pig production since semen from boars is widely used in artificial insemination for both purebred and crossbred pig production. Revealing the genetic architecture of semen traits potentially promotes the …
The feed conversion ratio (FCR) is an important productive trait that greatly affects profits in the pig industry. Elucidating the genetic mechanisms underpinning FCR may promote more efficient improvement of FCR through artificial selection. In this …