A comparison of methods to calculate a total merit index using stochastic simulation

BACKGROUND: Modern dairy cattle breeding goals include several production and more and more functional traits. Estimated breeding values (EBV) that are combined in the total merit index usually come from single-trait models or from multivariate models for groups of traits. In most cases, a multivari...

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Autores principales: Pfeiffer, Christina, Fuerst-Waltl, Birgit, Schwarzenbacher, Hermann, Steininger, Franz, Fuerst, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25934497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0118-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25934497
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0118-4

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