[HTML][HTML] Hot topic: a unified approach to utilize phenotypic, full pedigree, and genomic information for genetic evaluation of Holstein final score

I Aguilar, I Misztal, DL Johnson, A Legarra… - Journal of dairy …, 2010 - Elsevier
The first national single-step, full-information (phenotype, pedigree, and marker genotype)
genetic evaluation was developed for final score of US Holsteins. Data included final scores …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple-trait genomic evaluation of linear type traits using genomic and phenotypic data in US Holsteins

S Tsuruta, I Misztal, I Aguilar, TJ Lawlor - Journal of dairy science, 2011 - Elsevier
Currently, the USDA uses a single-trait (ST) model with several intermediate steps to obtain
genomic evaluations for US Holsteins. In this study, genomic evaluations for 18 linear type …

[HTML][HTML] The genomic evaluation system in the United States: Past, present, future

GR Wiggans, PM VanRaden, TA Cooper - Journal of dairy science, 2011 - Elsevier
Implementation of genomic evaluation has caused profound changes in dairy cattle
breeding. All young bulls bought by major artificial insemination organizations now are …

[HTML][HTML] Invited review: Reliability of genomic predictions for North American Holstein bulls

PM VanRaden, CP Van Tassell, GR Wiggans… - Journal of dairy …, 2009 - Elsevier
Genetic progress will increase when breeders examine genotypes in addition to pedigrees
and phenotypes. Genotypes for 38,416 markers and August 2003 genetic evaluations for …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of genomic recursions in single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor for US Holsteins with a large number of genotyped animals

Y Masuda, I Misztal, S Tsuruta, A Legarra, I Aguilar… - Journal of Dairy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The objectives of this study were to develop and evaluate an efficient implementation in the
computation of the inverse of genomic relationship matrix with the recursion algorithm …

[HTML][HTML] Multibreed genomic evaluations using purebred Holsteins, Jerseys, and Brown Swiss

KM Olson, PM VanRaden, ME Tooker - Journal of Dairy Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Multibreed models are currently used in traditional US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
dairy cattle genetic evaluations of yield and health traits, but within-breed models are used …

Genomic selection in dairy cattle: the USDA experience

GR Wiggans, JB Cole, SM Hubbard… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Genomic selection has revolutionized dairy cattle breeding. Since 2000, assays have been
developed to genotype large numbers of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic evaluations with many more genotypes

PM VanRaden, JR O'Connell, GR Wiggans… - Genetics Selection …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background Genomic evaluations in Holstein dairy cattle have quickly become
more reliable over the last two years in many countries as more animals have been …

[HTML][HTML] A relationship matrix including full pedigree and genomic information

A Legarra, I Aguilar, I Misztal - Journal of dairy science, 2009 - Elsevier
Dense molecular markers are being used in genetic evaluation for parts of the population.
This requires a two-step procedure where pseudo-data (for instance, daughter yield …

[HTML][HTML] Are evaluations on young genotyped animals benefiting from the past generations?

DAL Lourenco, I Misztal, S Tsuruta, I Aguilar… - Journal of Dairy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Data sets of US Holsteins, Israeli Holsteins, and pigs from PIC (a Genus company,
Hendersonville, TN) were used to evaluate the effect of different numbers of generations on …