Traditionally, pedigree-based relationship coefficients have been used to manage the
inbreeding and degree of inbreeding depression that exists within a population. The …

Extensive genetic progress has been achieved in dairy cattle populations on many traits of
economic importance because of efficient breeding programmes. Success of these …

Background Genomic relationship matrices are used to obtain genomic inbreeding
coefficients. However, there are several methodologies to compute these matrices and there …

Background In pigs, crossbreeding aims at exploiting heterosis, but heterosis is difficult to
quantify. Heterozygosity at genetic markers is easier to measure and could potentially be …

Conservation and breeding programs aim at maintaining the most diversity, thereby
avoiding deleterious effects of inbreeding while maintaining enough variation from which …

Conservation programmes aim at maximizing the survival probability of populations, by
minimizing the loss of genetic diversity, which allows populations to adapt to changes, and …

The adaptive potential of a population depends on the amount of additive genetic variance
for quantitative traits of evolutionary importance. This variance is a direct function of the …

We argue that animal-breeding schemes need well-designed breeding plans to maximise
long-term genetic gains from genomic information. Genomic information has been …

Background In spite of the availability of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array data,
differentiation between observed homozygosity and that caused by mating between …

Contents Technical advances and development in the market for genomic tools have
facilitated access to whole‐genome data across species. Building‐up on the acquired …