Santos, D J A

Connors, N K

Gurman, P M

Ferdosi, M H

Miller, S P

Swan, A A

2023-07-26

<p>The “metafounders” framework is used to augment relationship matrixes to accommodate genetic structure in founder populations, and can be estimated from genotypes, making it useful to align pedigree and genomic relationships in single-step genomic analyses. This paper aimed to assess the value of metafounders in the genomic evaluation of beef traits in Australian Simmental cattle, and in particular the possibility of collapsing genetic groupings based on metafounder similarity. Estimated breeding values from metafounder models with different groupings had similar predictive ability across 12 beef traits, while models with higher weighting on genomic relative to pedigree information tended to perform better.</p>

Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.25, p. 158-161

1328-3227

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/56103

Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)

Assessing the value of metafounders for genomic prediction in Australian Simmental beef cattle

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