Inbreeding depression across the genome of Dutch Holstein Friesian dairy cattle.
Harmen P DoekesPiter BijmaRoel F VeerkampGerben de JongYvonne C J WientjesJack J WindigPublished in: Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE (2020)
Inbreeding depression was distributed quite equally along the genome and was well captured by genome-wide homozygosity. These findings suggest that, based on 75 k SNP data, there is little benefit of accounting for region-specific inbreeding depression in selection schemes.