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Short communication: Effect of phantom parent grouping and properties of deregression for a low heritability trait

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    Abstract

    Properties of deregression for a low heritability trait (clinical mastitis in Sweden with heritability of 0.02) and effects of using different definitions of genetic groups in within-country deregression compared with the across-country analysis were studied. The deregression procedure was satisfactory, and the effects of different phantom parent grouping in within-country deregression compared with across-country analysis were negligible here.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)2393-2395
    Number of pages3
    JournalJournal of Dairy Science
    Volume85
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2002

    Keywords

    • deregression
    • genetic group
    • multiple-trait across-country evaluation
    • low heritability

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