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Development of a multivariate approach to predict Direct Genomic Values in dairy and beef cattle

Description : The huge number of markers in comparison with the phenotypes available represents one of the main issues in genomic selection. In the present work Principal Component Analysis has been used to reduce the dimensionality of predictors. The method has been tested on three Italian cattle breeds (Holste...
Language(s) : English
Subject(s) : AGR/17 Zootecnica generale e miglioramento genetico
Publisher(s) : Università degli studi di Sassari
Contributor(s) : Macciotta, Nicolò Pietro Paolo , Gaspa, Giustino
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Publication Date(s) : 2012-02-09