Status of Genomic Evaluation in the Brown Swiss Populations

Authors

  • Hossein Jorjani Interbull Centre, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
  • Jette Jakobsen Interbull Centre, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
  • Eva Hjerpe Interbull Centre, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
  • Valentina Palucci Interbull Centre, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
  • João Dürr Interbull Centre, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7023, S-75007 Uppsala, Sweden

Keywords:

common genomic reference population, genomic evaluation

Abstract

Genotype data on 7670 bulls from six populations (CHE, DEU-AUT, FRA, ITA, SVN, and the USA) were used to form a pooled reference population for international genomic evaluation of 34 traits (150 population-trait combinations). Genetic correlations between MACE EBV/PA, and the GEBV values were on average around 0.9 and 0.7 for the old and the young bulls, respectively. Validation of the international genomic evaluation model for 16 traits (73 population-trait combinations) was performed. All populations passed the GEBV-test for FAT, MIL, PRO, and FTL. The GEBV-test for ANG, CC2, DLO, FAN, FTP, INT, MSP, RLS, RUH, and STA indicated passing for half of the population-traits, while no population-trait passed the GEBV-test for RAN and SCS. With these results, the first phase of building an efficient international genomic evaluation system is complete, and one can move to extending the system to alternative genomic evaluation models, if one wishes so.

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Published

2012-05-24

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No. 46 (2012): Proceedings of the 2012 Interbull meeting

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