Unpublished conference/Abstract (Scientific congresses and symposiums)Studies on the Value of Incorporating Effect of Dominance in Genetic Evaluations of Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, and Swine
Misztal, I.; Varona, L.; Culbertson, M. et al.
1998 • 6th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production
Abstract :
[en] Potential gains from including the dominance effect in genetic evaluations include “purification” of additive values and availability of specific combining abilities for each pair of prospective parents. The magnitude of such gains was tested for dairy and beef cattle and for swine by estimating variance components for several traits and by analyzing changes in additive evaluations when the parental dominance effect was added to the model. Estimates of dominance variance for dairy and beef cattle and for swine were up to 10% of phenotypic variance; estimates were larger for growth traits. As a percentage of additive variance, the estimate of dominance variance reached 78% for 21-day litter weight of swine and 47% for postweaning weight of beef cattle. Changes in additive evaluations after considering dominance are largest for dams of a single large family. These changes were found to be important for dairy cattle especially for dams of full-sibs, but less important for swine
Title :
Studies on the Value of Incorporating Effect of Dominance in Genetic Evaluations of Dairy Cattle, Beef Cattle, and Swine
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