In the last decade, genomic selection has become a standard in the genetic evaluation of
livestock populations. However, most procedures for the implementation of genomic …

Although animal breeding was practiced long before the science of genetics and the
relevant disciplines of population and quantitative genetics were known, breeding programs …

1. The Non-Additive InVerses (nadiv) R software package contains functions to create and
use non-additive genetic relationship matrices in the animal model of quantitative genetics …

Abstract Knowledge of the genetic control of pork quality traits and relationships among pork
quality, growth, and carcass characteristics is required for American swine populations. Data …

Statistical methodology has played a key role in scientific animal breeding. Approximately
one hundred years of statistical developments in animal breeding are reviewed. Some of the …

Genotypes at a marker locus give information on transmission of genes from parents to
offspring and that information can be used in predicting the individuals' additive genetic …

For estimation of dominance effects and dominance variance, the inverse of a dominance
relationship matrix is required. Dominance effects can be partitioned into sire× dam or sire× …

Social structure, limited dispersal, and spatial heterogeneity in resources are ubiquitous in
wild vertebrate populations. As a result, relatives share environments as well as genes, and …

The effect of inbreeding on mean and genetic covariance matrix for a quantitative trait in a
population with additive and dominance effects is shown. This genetic covariance matrix is a …

For four sub-populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Norway, additive, dominance
and additive by additive genetic variances and inbreeding depression were estimated for …