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Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd
SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to quantify the benefit from the inclusion of genomic information in the estimation of breeding values for lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein or somatic cell score in a New Zealand dairy goat herd. The dataset included lactation yields of milk,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7823755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33375575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11010024 |
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author | Scholtens, Megan Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas Lehnert, Klaus Snell, Russell Garrick, Dorian Blair, Hugh T. |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to quantify the benefit from the inclusion of genomic information in the estimation of breeding values for lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein or somatic cell score in a New Zealand dairy goat herd. The dataset included lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein and average somatic cell score of 839 does and genotypes from 388 does. A prototype single-step BayesC model was developed to predict genomic breeding values and demonstrated that including genomic information into the evaluation can increase the accuracy of predictions compared with the traditional best linear unbiased prediction methods based on pedigrees alone, which is currently implemented in the New Zealand dairy goat industry. ABSTRACT: Selection on genomic breeding values (GBVs) is now readily available for ranking candidates in improvement schemes. Our objective was to quantify benefits in terms of accuracy of prediction from including genomic information in the single-trait estimation of breeding values (BVs) for a New Zealand mixed breed dairy goat herd. The dataset comprised phenotypic and pedigree records of 839 does. The phenotypes comprised estimates of 305-day lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein and average somatic cell score from the 2016 production season. Only 388 of the goats were genotyped with a Caprine 50K SNP chip and 41,981 of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) passed quality control. Pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction (PBLUP) was used to obtain across-breed breeding values (EBVs), whereas a single-step BayesC model (ssBC) was used to estimate across-breed GBVs. The average prediction accuracies ranged from 0.20 to 0.22 for EBVs and 0.34 to 0.43 for GBVs. Accuracies of GBVs were up to 103% greater than EBVs. Breed effects were more reliably estimated in the ssBC model compared with the PBLUP model. The greatest benefit of genomic prediction was for individuals with no pedigree or phenotypic records. Including genomic information improved the prediction accuracy of BVs compared with the current pedigree-based BLUP method currently implemented in the New Zealand dairy goat population. |
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spelling | pubmed-78237552021-01-24 Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd Scholtens, Megan Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas Lehnert, Klaus Snell, Russell Garrick, Dorian Blair, Hugh T. Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: The objective of this study was to quantify the benefit from the inclusion of genomic information in the estimation of breeding values for lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein or somatic cell score in a New Zealand dairy goat herd. The dataset included lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein and average somatic cell score of 839 does and genotypes from 388 does. A prototype single-step BayesC model was developed to predict genomic breeding values and demonstrated that including genomic information into the evaluation can increase the accuracy of predictions compared with the traditional best linear unbiased prediction methods based on pedigrees alone, which is currently implemented in the New Zealand dairy goat industry. ABSTRACT: Selection on genomic breeding values (GBVs) is now readily available for ranking candidates in improvement schemes. Our objective was to quantify benefits in terms of accuracy of prediction from including genomic information in the single-trait estimation of breeding values (BVs) for a New Zealand mixed breed dairy goat herd. The dataset comprised phenotypic and pedigree records of 839 does. The phenotypes comprised estimates of 305-day lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein and average somatic cell score from the 2016 production season. Only 388 of the goats were genotyped with a Caprine 50K SNP chip and 41,981 of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) passed quality control. Pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction (PBLUP) was used to obtain across-breed breeding values (EBVs), whereas a single-step BayesC model (ssBC) was used to estimate across-breed GBVs. The average prediction accuracies ranged from 0.20 to 0.22 for EBVs and 0.34 to 0.43 for GBVs. Accuracies of GBVs were up to 103% greater than EBVs. Breed effects were more reliably estimated in the ssBC model compared with the PBLUP model. The greatest benefit of genomic prediction was for individuals with no pedigree or phenotypic records. Including genomic information improved the prediction accuracy of BVs compared with the current pedigree-based BLUP method currently implemented in the New Zealand dairy goat population. MDPI 2020-12-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7823755/ /pubmed/33375575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11010024 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Scholtens, Megan Lopez-Villalobos, Nicolas Lehnert, Klaus Snell, Russell Garrick, Dorian Blair, Hugh T. Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title | Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title_full | Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title_fullStr | Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title_full_unstemmed | Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title_short | Advantage of including Genomic Information to Predict Breeding Values for Lactation Yields of Milk, Fat, and Protein or Somatic Cell Score in a New Zealand Dairy Goat Herd |
title_sort | advantage of including genomic information to predict breeding values for lactation yields of milk, fat, and protein or somatic cell score in a new zealand dairy goat herd |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7823755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33375575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11010024 |
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