[HTML][HTML] Genetic selection of high-yielding dairy cattle toward sustainable farming systems in a rapidly changing world

LF Brito, N Bédère, F Douhard, HR Oliveira, M Arnal… - Animal, 2021 - Elsevier
The massive improvement in food production, as a result of effective genetic selection
combined with advancements in farming practices, has been one of the greatest …

A general and efficient representation of ancestral recombination graphs

Y Wong, A Ignatieva, J Koskela, G Gorjanc… - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
As a result of recombination, adjacent nucleotides can have different paths of genetic
inheritance and therefore the genealogical trees for a sample of DNA sequences vary along …

Genomewide association analyses of lactation persistency and milk production traits in Holstein cattle based on imputed whole-genome sequence data

VB Pedrosa, FS Schenkel, SY Chen, HR Oliveira… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lactation persistency and milk production are among the most economically important traits
in the dairy industry. In this study, we explored the association of over 6.1 million imputed …

Expanding the stdpopsim species catalog, and lessons learned for realistic genome simulations

ME Lauterbur, MIA Cavassim, AL Gladstein, G Gower… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Simulation is a key tool in population genetics for both methods development and empirical
research, but producing simulations that recapitulate the main features of genomic datasets …

Effect of recent and ancient inbreeding on production and fertility traits in Canadian Holsteins

BO Makanjuola, C Maltecca, F Miglior, FS Schenkel… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Phenotypic performances of livestock animals decline with increasing levels of
inbreeding, however, the noticeable decline known as inbreeding depression, may not be …

[HTML][HTML] How genomic selection has increased rates of genetic gain and inbreeding in the Australian national herd, genomic information nucleus, and bulls

BA Scott, M Haile-Mariam, BG Cocks, JE Pryce - Journal of Dairy Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Genomic selection has been commonly used for selection for over a decade. In this time, the
rate of genetic gain has more than doubled in some countries, while inbreeding per year has …

The value of genomic relationship matrices to estimate levels of inbreeding

B Villanueva, A Fernández, M Saura… - Genetics Selection …, 2021 - Springer
Background Genomic relationship matrices are used to obtain genomic inbreeding
coefficients. However, there are several methodologies to compute these matrices and there …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the genomic background of resilience based on variability in milk yield and milk production levels in North American Holstein cattle through …

SY Chen, LS Gloria, VB Pedrosa, J Doucette… - Journal of Dairy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Breeding more resilient animals will benefit the dairy cattle industry in the long term,
especially as global climate changes become more severe. Previous studies have reported …

Identifying pleiotropic variants and candidate genes for fertility and reproduction traits in Holstein cattle via association studies based on imputed whole-genome …

SY Chen, FS Schenkel, ALP Melo, HR Oliveira… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Genetic progress for fertility and reproduction traits in dairy cattle has been
limited due to the low heritability of most indicator traits. Moreover, most of the quantitative …

Genetic diversity in the Italian Holstein dairy cattle based on pedigree and SNP data prior and after genomic selection

M Ablondi, A Sabbioni, G Stocco… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genetic diversity has become an urgent matter not only in small local breeds but also in
more specialized ones. While the use of genomic data in livestock breeding programs …