The impact of deregressed foreign breeding values on national beef cattle single-step genomic evaluation
These findings underscore the importance of accurately integrating foreign EBVs to enhance national genomic evaluations and genetic progress in livestock populations. Our results show that the matrix approach to deregressing EBVs performs optimally across traits and breeds. However, the VR deregression approach can serve as an alternative in situations where the matrix deregression approach might be too technical to implement.
Authors
- R.D. Evans (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0370-5949)
- Damilola Adekale (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-1146)
- T. Pabiou
- Reinhard Reents (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1481-7436)
- Zengting Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7112-0320)
- Jens Tetens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5352-464X)
- Dierck Segelke
Institutions
- Zimmer Biomet (Netherlands) (NL)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Genetics Selection Evolution
- Published
- 2025-07-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-025-00982-2
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.82
Funders
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar