Building on Falconer's work on environmental sensitivity and scale

D L Waters; J H J van der Werf; S A Clark

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_812

Building on Falconer's work on environmental sensitivity and scale

D L Waters
, J H J van der Werf
, S A Clark

Animal Science

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Reaction norms are popular for analysing the genetics of environmental sensitivity in animals. The slope of the reaction norm is directly used as a measure of sensitivity. However, some of the variation in slope might be due to differences in the scale of the genetic variance. This problem was considered in 1990 by Falconer in the context of phenotypic reaction norms. This paper extends his work into the current use of genetic random regression reaction norms. A simple post-hoc method to estimate breeding values for environmental sensitivity independent of scale effects while accommodating for higher-order polynomials is proposed. A small example is used for illustration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP)
Editors	R F Veerkamp, Y de Haas
Place of Publication	Wageningen, The Netherlands
Publisher	Wageningen Academic
Pages	3343-3346
Volume	12
ISBN (Print)	9789086869404
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_812
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2022
Event	WCGALP 2022: 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production - De Doelen International Conference Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Duration: 3 Jul 2022 → 8 Jul 2022

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Conference	WCGALP 2022: 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production
City	Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Period	3/07/22 → 8/07/22

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Waters, DL, van der Werf, JHJ & Clark, SA 2022, Building on Falconer's work on environmental sensitivity and scale. in RF Veerkamp & YD Haas (eds), Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP). vol. 12, 812, Wageningen Academic, Wageningen, The Netherlands, pp. 3343-3346, WCGALP 2022: 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3/07/22. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_812

Building on Falconer's work on environmental sensitivity and scale. / Waters, D L; van der Werf, J H J; Clark, S A.
Proceedings of 12th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP). ed. / R F Veerkamp; Y de Haas. Vol. 12 Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic, 2022. p. 3343-3346 812.

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