Highly efficient and accurate selection of elite genotypes can lead to dramatic shortening of
the breeding cycle in major crops relevant for sustaining present demands for food, feed …

Abstract “Genomic selection,” the ability to select for even complex, quantitative traits based
on marker data alone, has arisen from the conjunction of new high-throughput marker …

Recent advances in molecular genetic techniques will make dense marker maps available
and genotyping many individuals for these markers feasible. Here we attempted to estimate …

Key message Population structure must be evaluated before optimization of the training set
population. Maximizing the phenotypic variance captured by the training set is important for …

The availability of dense molecular markers has made possible the use of genomic selection
(GS) for plant breeding. However, the evaluation of models for GS in real plant populations …

Whole-genome regression methods are being increasingly used for the analysis and
prediction of complex traits and diseases. In human genetics, these methods are commonly …

The availability of genomewide dense markers brings opportunities and challenges to
breeding programs. An important question concerns the ways in which dense markers and …

The availability of cheap and abundant molecular markers has led to plant-breeding
methods that rely on the prediction of genotypic value from marker data, but published …

The use of all available molecular markers in statistical models for prediction of quantitative
traits has led to what could be termed a genomic-assisted selection paradigm in animal and …

The Gini index is a summary statistic that measures how equitably a resource is distributed
in a population; income is a primary example. In addition to a self-contained presentation of …