The genetic diversity of the world's livestock populations is decreasing, both within and
across breeds. A wide variety of factors has contributed to the loss, replacement or genetic …

Monitoring genetic diversity through probability of gene origin can reveal the past
management of populations and can be used for devising future management to minimize …

Computation of inbreeding rate (ΔF) must consider that inbreeding is delayed with one
generation with respect to the idealized population when addressed using individual …

We present here a simple approach to obtain reliable estimates of the effective population
size in real world populations via the computation of the increase in inbreeding for each …

Domestic dogs are important for many economic and social reasons, and they have become
a well-known model species for human disease. According to research, dog breeds exhibit …

Recently different studies have formalized the way in which it is possible to obtain
coancestry coefficients from molecular information (Caballero and Toro 2002; Eding and …

Inbreeding depression on female fertility and calving ease in Spanish dairy cattle was
studied by the traditional inbreeding coefficient (F) and an alternative measurement …

We introduce a simple method to estimate effective population size from increase in
coancestry (Δcjk) for all pairs of individuals j and k in a reference subpopulation. An increase …

The studbook of the Andalusian horse comprising a total of 75,389 individuals (6318 of them
classified as Carthusians) was analysed in order to ascertain the genetic history of the breed …

Parent-of-origin effects are often excluded from models used for estimating of additive and
non-additive genetic variances. Omission of parentally-linked genetic factors, such as …