Accounting for uncertainty in QTL location in marker-assisted pre-selection of young bulls prior to progeny test

cg.creator.identifierJohn Gibson: 0000-0003-0371-2401
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1046/j.1439-0388.2002.00307.xen
cg.issn0931-2668en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalJournal of Animal Breeding and Geneticsen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
cg.subject.ilriGENETICSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.volume119en
dc.contributor.authorStella, A.en
dc.contributor.authorJanson, G.B.en
dc.contributor.authorBoettcher, P.J.en
dc.contributor.authorGibson, John P.en
dc.contributor.authorLohuis, M.M.en
dc.contributor.authorPagnacco, G.en
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-03T05:25:51Zen
dc.date.available2013-07-03T05:25:51Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/32972
dc.titleAccounting for uncertainty in QTL location in marker-assisted pre-selection of young bulls prior to progeny testen
dcterms.abstractThe objective of this study was to evaluate whether the efficacy of marker assisted selection (MAS) could be improved by considering a confidence interval (CI) of QTL position. Specifically, MAS was applied for within-family selection in a stochastic simulation of a closed nucleus herd. The location and effect of the QTL were estimated by least squares interval mapping with a granddaughter design and marker information was then used in a top down scheme. Three approaches were used to select the best bull within full sibships of 3 or 40 bulls. All three were based on the probability of inheriting the favorable allele from the grandsire (PROB). The first method selected the sib with the highest PROB at the location with the highest F-ratio (MAX). The other two approaches were based on sums of estimated regression coefficients weighted by PROB at each cM within a 95% CI based on either bootstrapping (BOOT) or approximate LOD scores (LOD). Accounting for CI increased the relative genetic gain in all scenarios. The average breeding value (BV) of the selected bulls was increased by 2.00, 2.60 and 2.59% when MASwas applied using MAX,BOOTand LOD, respectively, compared to random selection (h2 Ã 0.30). Selected bulls carried the correct allele in 63.0, 68.5, 67.6 and 50.1% of the cases for MAX, BOOT, LOD and random selection, respectively.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2002-02-12
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJournal of Animal Breeding and Genetics;119(1): 15-24en
dcterms.extentp. 15-24en
dcterms.issued2002-02
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectbullsen
dcterms.subjectprogeny testingen
dcterms.subjectselectionen
dcterms.subjectgenotypesen
dcterms.subjectmethodsen
dcterms.subjectbreeding valueen
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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