Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2837
Title: Accounting for uncertainty in QTL location in marker-assisted pre-selection of young bulls prior to progeny test
Contributor(s): Stella, A (author); Jansen, G B (author); Boettcher, P J (author); Gibson, John Paul  (author); Lohuis, M M (author); Pagnacco, G (author)
Publication Date: 2002
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2837
Abstract: The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the efficacy of marker-assisted selection (MAS) could be improved by considering a confidence interval (CI) of QTL position. Specifically, MAS was applied for within-family selection in a stochastic simulation of a closed nucleus herd. The location and effect of the QTL were estimated by least squares interval mapping with a granddaughter design and marker information was then used in a top down scheme. Three approaches were used to select the best bull within full sibships of 3 or 40 bulls. All three were based on the probability of inheriting the favorable allele from the grandsire (PROB). The first method selected the sib with the highest PROB at the location with the highest F-ratio (MAX). The other two approaches were based on sums of estimated regression coefficients weighted by PROB at each cM within a 95% CI based on either bootstrapping (BOOT) or approximate LOD scores (LOD). Accounting for CI increased the relative genetic gain in all scenarios. The average breeding value (BV) of the selected bulls was increased by 2.00, 2.60 and 2.59% when MAS was applied using MAX, BOOT and LOD, respectively, compared to random selection (h² = 0.30). Selected bulls carried the correct allele in 63.0, 68.5, 67.6 and 50.1% of the cases for MAX, BOOT, LOD and random selection, respectively.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 119(1), p. 15-24
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Verlag GmbH
Place of Publication: Germany
ISSN: 1439-0388
0931-2668
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 070201 Animal Breeding
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 830301 Beef Cattle
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118922838/issue
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an4578935
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