Single-step genomic evaluation became a standard procedure in livestock breeding, and
the main reason is the ability to combine all pedigree, phenotypes, and genotypes available …

Early application of genomic selection relied on SNP estimation with phenotypes or de-
regressed proofs (DRP). Chips of 50k SNP seemed sufficient for an accurate estimation of …

Background Inbreeding decreases animal performance (inbreeding depression), but not all
inbreeding is expected to be equally harmful. Recent inbreeding is expected to be more …

Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

The increase in inbreeding can be used to derive the realized effective size of a population.
However, this method reflects mainly long term effects of selection choices and is very …

Background Levels of inbreeding in cattle populations have increased in the past due to the
use of a limited number of bulls for artificial insemination. High levels of inbreeding lead to …

Genetic contributions were first formalized in 1958 by James and McBride (Journal of
Genetics, 56, 55–62) and have since been shown to provide a unifying framework for …

Pedig is a software written in Fortran 77 and particularly suited to the pedigree analysis of
large populations. It includes a set of independent programs to calculate probabilities of …

The effects of inbreeding on the lifetime performance of dairy cattle were examined using
data for production, somatic cell score, and linear type for all Holstein cows that were scored …

Recent use of genomic (marker-based) relationships shows that relationships exist within
and across base population (breeds or lines). However, current treatment of pedigree …