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The importance of population structure on the accuracy of genomic prediction in a multi-breed sheep population

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Abstract

Population structure, due to breed, strains and sire family, influences the accuracy of genomic prediction. We investigated principle component analysis as a way to account for population structure in within and across breed genomic prediction of greasy fleece weight and eye muscle depth in multi-breed sheep data. Population structure (including for example half sib family relationships) is responsible for a large proportion of the accuracy of genomic prediction. Correcting for it increased accuracy of greasy fleece weight across breed prediction, but reduced accuracy of across breed prediction for eye muscle depth for breeds not in the reference set. However, the correction reduced within breed accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
EditorsWilliam Pattie
Place of PublicationArmidale, Australia
PublisherAssociation for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Pages327-330
Volume19
ISBN (Print)9780646559155
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventAAABG 2011: 19th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics - Perth, Australia
Duration: 19 Jul 2011 → 21 Jul 2011

Conference

ConferenceAAABG 2011: 19th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
CityPerth, Australia
Period19/07/11 → 21/07/11

Keywords

  • Animal Breeding

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