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Genetic Heteroscedasticity for Teat Count in Pigs
Högskolan Dalarna, Akademin Industri och samhälle, Statistik.
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Institutionen för husdjursgenetik.
(Engelska)Manuskript (preprint) (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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Sannolikhetsteori och statistik Husdjursvetenskap
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Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-14318OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-14318DiVA, id: diva2:725324
Tillgänglig från: 2014-06-16 Skapad: 2014-06-16 Senast uppdaterad: 2014-06-30Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. Genetic Heteroscedasticity for Domestic Animal Traits
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Genetic Heteroscedasticity for Domestic Animal Traits
2014 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

Animal traits differ not only in mean, but also in variation around the mean. For instance, one sire’s daughter group may be very homogeneous, while another sire’s daughters are much more heterogeneous in performance. The difference in residual variance can partially be explained by genetic differences. Models for such genetic heterogeneity of environmental variance include genetic effects for the mean and residual variance, and a correlation between the genetic effects for the mean and residual variance to measure how the residual variance might vary with the mean.

The aim of this thesis was to develop a method based on double hierarchical generalized linear models for estimating genetic heteroscedasticity, and to apply it on four traits in two domestic animal species; teat count and litter size in pigs, and milk production and somatic cell count in dairy cows.

The method developed is fast and has been implemented in software that is widely used in animal breeding, which makes it convenient to use. It is based on an approximation of double hierarchical generalized linear models by normal distributions. When having repeated observations on individuals or genetic groups, the estimates were found to be unbiased.

For the traits studied, the estimated heritability values for the mean and the residual variance, and the genetic coefficients of variation, were found in the usual ranges reported. The genetic correlation between mean and residual variance was estimated for the pig traits only, and was found to be favorable for litter size, but unfavorable for teat count.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Uppsala: Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, 2014. s. 54
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Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae, ISSN 1652-6880 ; 2014:43
Nyckelord
Quantitative genetics, genetic heteroscedasticity of residuals, genetic heterogeneity of environmental variation, genetic heterogeneity of residual variance, double hierarchical generalized linear models, teat count in pigs, litter size in pigs, milk yield in cows, somatic cell count in cows
Nationell ämneskategori
Husdjursvetenskap Sannolikhetsteori och statistik
Forskningsämne
Forskningsprofiler 2009-2020, Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys
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urn:nbn:se:du-14310 (URN)978-91-576-8035-8 (ISBN)978-91-576-8034-1 (ISBN)
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2014-06-11, Room L, Undervisningsplan 8, Uppsala, 09:15 (Engelska)
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Tillgänglig från: 2014-06-16 Skapad: 2014-06-16 Senast uppdaterad: 2021-11-12Bibliografiskt granskad

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