Identification of genomic variants causing variation in quantitative traits: a review

T Meuwissen, B Hayes, I MacLeod, M Goddard - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many of the important traits of livestock are complex or quantitative traits controlled by
thousands of variants in the DNA sequence of individual animals and environmental factors …

Weighting strategies for single-step genomic BLUP: an iterative approach for accurate calculation of GEBV and GWAS

X Zhang, D Lourenco, I Aguilar, A Legarra… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Genomic Best Linear Unbiased Predictor (GBLUP) assumes equal variance for all single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). When traits are influenced by major SNP, Bayesian …

Stacked kinship CNN vs. GBLUP for genomic predictions of additive and complex continuous phenotypes

N Nazzicari, F Biscarini - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning is impacting many fields of data science with often spectacular results.
However, its application to whole-genome predictions in plant and animal science or in …

Genomic evaluation of feed efficiency component traits in Duroc pigs using 80K, 650K and whole-genome sequence variants

C Zhang, RA Kemp, P Stothard, Z Wang… - Genetics Selection …, 2018 - Springer
Background Increasing marker density was proposed to have potential to improve the
accuracy of genomic prediction for quantitative traits; whole-sequence data is expected to …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the effect of reference population on the accuracy of within, across, and multibreed genomic prediction

I Van den Berg, THE Meuwissen, IM MacLeod… - Journal of dairy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Genomic prediction is widely used to select candidates for breeding. Size and composition
of the reference population are important factors influencing prediction accuracy. In Holstein …

Efficient genomic prediction based on whole-genome sequence data using split-and-merge Bayesian variable selection

MPL Calus, AC Bouwman, C Schrooten… - Genetics Selection …, 2016 - Springer
Background Use of whole-genome sequence data is expected to increase persistency of
genomic prediction across generations and breeds but affects model performance and …

Efficient weighting methods for genomic best linear-unbiased prediction (BLUP) adapted to the genetic architectures of quantitative traits

D Ren, L An, B Li, L Qiao, W Liu - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic best linear-unbiased prediction (GBLUP) assumes equal variance for all marker
effects, which is suitable for traits that conform to the infinitesimal model. For traits controlled …

Strategies to improve genomic predictions for 35 duck carcass traits in an F2 population

W Cai, J Hu, W Fan, Y Xu, J Tang, M **e… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Carcass traits are crucial for broiler ducks, but carcass traits can only be
measured postmortem. Genomic selection (GS) is an effective approach in animal breeding …

[HTML][HTML] Multibreed genomic prediction using multitrait genomic residual maximum likelihood and multitask Bayesian variable selection

MPL Calus, ME Goddard, YCJ Wientjes… - Journal of dairy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Genomic prediction is applicable to individuals of different breeds. Empirical results to date,
however, show limited benefits in using information on multiple breeds in the context of …

Genetic basis for resistance against viral nervous necrosis: GWAS and potential of genomic prediction explored in farmed European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

S Vela-Avitúa, I Thorland, V Bakopoulos… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viral nervous necrosis (VNN) is an infectious disease caused by the red-spotted grouper
nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV) in European sea bass and is considered a serious concern …