Articles

• Preface

  J Dürr

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• Genetic evaluation for fertility traits in Austria and Germany

  C Fuerst, B Gredler

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• Expressing female fertility in the Walloon Region of Belgium: How to do?

  S Vanderick, C Bastin, N Gengler

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• Genetic analysis of evaluations for female fertility with production included

  R Mrode, M Coffey

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• Predicting mastitis resistance breeding values from somatic cell count indicator traits

  H Eding, Y de Haas, G de Jong

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• Simultaneous and recursive random regression models for milk yield and somatic cell score in Canadian Holsteins

  J Jamrozik, J Bohmanova, L R Schaeffer

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• Estimation of parameters for heterogeneous variance adjustment on test-day data

  Sz Márkus, E A Mäntysaari, I Strandén, M H Lidauer

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• Estimation of variance components for Nordic Red Cattle test-day model: Bayesian Gibbs sampler vs. Monte Carlo EM REML

  M H Lidauer, P Madsen, K Matilainen, E A Mäntysaari, I Strandén, R Thompson, J Pösö, J Pedersen, U S Nielsen, J-Å Eriksson, K Johansson, G P Aamand

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• Impact of using reduced rank random regression test-day model on genetic evaluation

  H Leclerc, I Nagy, V Ducrocq

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• Joint Nordic genetic evaluation of growth and carcass traits in dairy breeds

  K Johansson, U Sander Nielsen, J Pösö, J-Å Eriksson, G P Aamand

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• Beef without borders: genetic parameters for Charolais and Limousine Interbeef genetic evaluation of weaning weights

  E Venot, M N Fouilloux, F Forabosco, A Fogh, T Pabiou, K Moore, J-Å Eriksson, G Renand, D Laloë

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• Interbeef genetic evaluation of Charolais and Limousine weaning weights

  E Venot, M N Fouilloux, F Forabosco, A Fogh, T Pabiou, K Moore, J-Å Eriksson, G Renand, D Laloë

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• MT-MACE for female fertility and milk yield

  M A Nilforooshan, J Jakobsen, W F Fikse, B Berglund, H Jorjani

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• Comparison of different variance component estimation approaches for MACE - direct and bottom-up PC

  A-M Tyrisevä, K Meyer, F Fikse, V Ducrocq, J Jakobsen, M H Lidauer, E A Mäntysaari

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• Validation method for beef national genetic evaluation models

  F Forabosco, V Palucci, J Ahlqvist, A Näsholm

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• Selecting traits for international beef evaluations: survey results

  F Forabosco, V Palucci, J Dürr

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• Impact of milk production breeding program on the Guzerat (Bos indicus) population parameters in Brazil

  M G.C.D Peixoto, R S Verneque, M C Pereira, M A Machado, M R.S Carvalho

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• Inbreeding rates in breeding programs with different strategies for using genomic selection

  A C Sørensen, M K Sørensen

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• Genetic structure of the European Limousin cattle metapopulation using pedigree analyses

  A Bouquet, E Venot, D Laloë, F Forabosco, A Fogh, T Pabiou, M Coffey, J-Å Eriksson, G Renand, F Phocas

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• Dairy cattle fit for diverging purposes

  W A Montgomerie

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• Changes in selection of Italian Holstein

  F Canavesi, S Biffani, R Finocchiaro, E L Nicolazzi

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• Genetic analysis of calf and heifer losses in Danish Holstein

  B Fuerst-Waltl, M K Sørensen

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• Best use of conventional EBV of bull dams and combination with direct genomic values

  S Rensing, E Pasman, F Reinhardt

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• Multi-breed genetic evaluation for docility in Irish Suckler Beef Cattle

  R D Evans, T Pabiou, F Kearney, H A Mulder

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• Use of digital images to predict carcass cut yields in cattle

  T Pabiou, L Kreuchwig, A R Cromie, M J Drennan, M G Keane, W F Fikse, A Näsholm, D P Berry

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• Analysis of calving traits with a multitrait animal model with a correlated direct and maternal effect

  M L van Pelt, G de Jong, H Eding, J E Roelfzema

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• Evaluation of factors influencing milk ejection in the Brazilian Gyr dairy cattle

  V A Praxedes, R S Verneque, M C Pereira, M F.A Pires, M A Machado, M G.C.D Peixoto

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• Consequences of the use of different procedures to adjust milk yield for age of cow at calving in the Brazilian Dairy Gyr breeding program

  M C Pereira, M G.C.D Peixoto, M A Machado, S H.A Ribeiro, C H.C Machado, R S Verneque

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• Genomic conversion equations

  A Loberg, J W Dürr, H Jorjani

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• Development of genomic GMACE

  P G Sullivan, P M VanRaden

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• Relation between accuracies of genomic predictions and ancestral links to the training data

  M S Lund, G Su, U S Nielsen, G P Aamand

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• Evidence of a bias in genetic evaluation due to genomic selection

  C Patry, V Ducrocq

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• Combining genomic and classical information in national BLUP evaluations

  V Ducrocq, Z Liu

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• Optimized aggregation of phenotypes for MA-BLUP evaluation in German Fleckvieh

  C Edel, R Emmerling, K-U Götz

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• A simple method for correcting the bias caused by genomic pre-selection in conventional genetic evaluation

  Z Liu, F Seefried, F Reinhardt, R Reents

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• National genomic evaluations without genotypes

  B L Harris, D L Johnson, W A Montgomerie

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• Incorporation of correlation between SNPs into the genomic evaluation model

  J Szyda, S. Kami, A Zarnecki, K Zukowski

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• Estimating reliabilities of genomic breeding values

  M P.L Calus, H A Mulder, K Verbyla, R F Veerkamp

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• A general genomics simulation program

  J Jorjani

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• Genomic selection in Fleckvieh/Simmental - First results

  B Gredler, K G Nirea, T R Solberg, C Egger-Danner, T H.E Meuwissen, J Sölkner

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• Canadian implementation of genomic evaluations

  B J Van Doormaal, G J Kistemaker, P G Sullivan, M Sargolzaei, F S Schenkel

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• Implementation of genomic evaluation in German Holsteins

  F Reinhardt, Z Liu, F Seefried, G Thaller

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• Implementation and uptake of genomic evaluations in Ireland

  F Kearney, A Cromie, D P Berry

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• Work in progress on Italian Holstein genomic evaluation

  J B.C.H.M van Kaam, G B Jansen, E L Nicolazzi, F Canavesi

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• Experiences in validating genomic evaluations

  G J Kistemaker, P G Sullivan

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• A unified approach to utilize phenotypic, full pedigree and genomic information for a genetic evaluation of Holstein final score

  I Misztal, I Aguilar, D Johnson, A Legarra, S Tsuruta, T J Lawlor

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• Future animal improvement programs applied to global populations

  P M VanRaden

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• Practical cattle breeding in the future - commercialised or co-operative, across borderlines between countries and organizations

  N Bo

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• Country profiles regarding the use of imported dairy bulls

  J W Dürr, J H Jakobsen

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• Breeding for a global dairy market using genomic selection

  A P.W de Roos, C Schrooten, R F Veerkamp, J A.M van Arendonk

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• Utilizing international gene pool, a Nordic experience

  H Stålhammar

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• Economic indices for various breeds under different farming systems and price uncertainty - Case Slovenia

  M. Klop, R Veerkamp, S Žgur, J Osterc, M Kovač, Š Malovrh, S Kavčič, M Čepon, P Dillon, L Shalloo, A Kuipers, Y de Haas

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• Challenges and opportunities for global dairy cattle breeding - A Canadian perspective

  F Miglior, J Chesnais

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• Monitoring sustainability of international dairy breeds

  J Philipsson, F Forabosco, J H Jakobsen

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• Brown Swiss x Holstein crossbreds compared to pure Holsteins for production in first two lactations

  S Blöttner, M Wensch-Dorendorf, H H Swalve

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• Genotype x environment interaction in the Greek Holstein population

  D Tsiokos, D Chatziplis, C Ligda, A Georgoudis

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