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A crossbred reference population can improve the response to genomic selection for crossbred performance

BACKGROUND: Breeding goals in a crossbreeding system should be defined at the commercial crossbred level. However, selection is often performed to improve purebred performance. A genomic selection (GS) model that includes dominance effects can be used to select purebreds for crossbred performance. O...

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Autores principales: Esfandyari, Hadi, Sørensen, Anders Christian, Bijma, Piter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4587753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26419430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-015-0155-z