Alignment of pedigree and genomic information in a combined terminal sire and maternal sheep analysis

Title
Alignment of pedigree and genomic information in a combined terminal sire and maternal sheep analysis
Publication Date
2025-06
Author(s)
Gurman, P M
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4375-115X
Email: pgurman@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pgurman
Alexandri, P
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5367-3781
Email: palexan8@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:palexan8
Brown, D J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4786-7563
Email: dbrown2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:dbrown2
Bunter, K L
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5587-4416
Email: kbunter2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kbunter2
De las Heras-Saldana, S
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8665-6160
Email: sdelash2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sdelash2
Gore, K P
Li, L
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3601-9729
Email: lli4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lli4
McMillan, A J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5054-5867
Email: amcmill4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:amcmill4
Walkom, S F
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2275-0318
Email: swalkom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swalkom
Swan, A A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8048-3169
Email: aswan@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:aswan
Editor
Editor(s): Sue Hatcher
Type of document
Conference Publication
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71569
Abstract

Recent efforts to combine the Sheep Genetics LAMBPLAN maternal and terminal sire analyses presented the opportunity to review the genomic model used in single-step genomic BLUP. This paper uses forward validation to examine the suitability of different genomic models, including metafounders, a genomic relationship matrix (GRM) constructed from a single set of allele frequencies and a breed-adjusted GRM using allele frequencies for each identified subpopulation. The metafounder model yielded slightly higher stability values and was slightly less biased than the other genomic models. Metafounders also largely resulted in higher within-breed stabilities. These results support the use of a metafounder model for the combined LAMBPLAN analysis.

Link
Citation
Proceedings of the AAABG 26th Conference, p. 213-216
ISSN
1328-3227
Start page
213
End page
216

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