Optimizing genomic reference populations to improve crossbred performance.
Yvonne C J WientjesPiter BijmaMario P L CalusPublished in: Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE (2020)
The benefit of a crossbred reference population becomes larger when the crossbred population is more related to the purebred selection candidates, when the purebred-crossbred correlation is lower, and when the reference population is larger. The purebred-crossbred correlation and reference population size interact with each other with respect to their impact on the accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values.
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