Genomic Selection of Purebred Animals for Crossbred Performance in the Presence of Dominant Gene Action

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2013-01-01
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Zeng, Jian
Toosi, Ali
Fernando, Rohan
Dekkers, Jack
Garrick, Dorian
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The primary objective of this study was to assess the performance of different genomic prediction models applied to the selection of purebreds for crossbred performancebased on high-density marker data. Our results suggest that in the presence of dominant gene action, selection based on the dominance model is superior to both the a breed-specific allele model and an additive model in terms of maximizing crossbred performance through purebred selection, especially when training is not updated each generation

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