Expected values for the accuracy of predicted breeding values accounting for genetic differences between reference and target populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Genetic merit, or breeding values as referred to in livestock and crop breeding programs, is one of the keys to the successful selection of animals in commercial farming systems. The developments in statistical methods during the twentieth century and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip technologies in the twenty-first century have revolutionized agricultural production, by allowing highly accurate predictions of breeding values for selection candidates at a very early age. Nonetheless, for many breeding populations, realized accuracies of predicted breeding values (PBV) remain below the theoretical maximum, even when the reference population is sufficiently large, and SNPs included in the model are in sufficient linkage disequilibrium (LD) with the quantitative tr

SUBMITTER: Cuyabano BCD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11234767 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature