Article ; Online: Multi-breed genomic evaluation for tropical beef cattle when no pedigree information is available.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE
2023 Volume 55, Issue 1, Page(s) 71
Abstract: Background: It has been challenging to implement genomic selection in multi-breed tropical beef cattle populations. If commercial (often crossbred) animals could be used in the reference population for these genomic evaluations, this could allow for ... ...
| Abstract | Background: It has been challenging to implement genomic selection in multi-breed tropical beef cattle populations. If commercial (often crossbred) animals could be used in the reference population for these genomic evaluations, this could allow for very large reference populations. In tropical beef systems, such animals often have no pedigree information. Here we investigate potential models for such data, using marker heterozygosity (to model heterosis) and breed composition derived from genetic markers, as covariates in the model. Models treated breed effects as either fixed or random, and included genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) and BayesR. A tropically-adapted beef cattle dataset of 29,391 purebred, crossbred and composite commercial animals was used to evaluate the models. Results: Treating breed effects as random, in an approach analogous to genetic groups allowed partitioning of the genetic variance into within-breed and across breed-components (even with a large number of breeds), and estimation of within-breed and across-breed genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV). We demonstrate that moderately-accurate (0.30-0.43) GEBV can be calculated using these models. Treating breed effects as random gave more accurate GEBV than treating breed as fixed. A simple GBLUP model where no breed effects were fitted gave the same accuracy (and correlations of GEBV very close to 1) as a model where GEBV for within-breed and the GEBV for (random) across-breed effects were included. When GEBV were predicted for herds with no data in the reference population, BayesR resulted in the highest accuracy, with 3% accuracy improvement averaged across traits, especially when the validation population was less related to the reference population. Estimates of heterosis from our models were in line with previous estimates from beef cattle. A method for estimating the number of effective breed comparisons for each breed combination accumulated across contemporary groups is presented. Conclusions: When no pedigree is available, breed composition and heterosis for inclusion in multi-breed genomic evaluation can be estimated from genotypes. When GEBV were predicted for herds with no data in the reference population, BayesR resulted in the highest accuracy. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Cattle/genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Genome ; Genomics/methods ; Genotype ; Phenotype ; Models, Genetic | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2023-10-16 | |||||
| Publishing country | France | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 1005838-2 | |||||
| ISSN | 1297-9686 ; 0754-0264 ; 0999-193X | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1297-9686 | |||||
| ISSN | 0754-0264 ; 0999-193X | |||||
| DOI | 10.1186/s12711-023-00847-6 | |||||
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