Genomic Prediction of Additive and Dominant Effects on Wool and Blood Traits in Alpine Merino Sheep

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第一作者： Zhu, Shaohua

作者： Zhu, Shaohua;Gun, Shuangbao;Zhu, Shaohua;Zhao, Hongchang;Han, Mei;Yuan, Chao;Guo, Tingting;Liu, Jianbin;Yue, Yaojing;Qiao, Guoyan;Yang, Bohui;Wang, Tianxiang;Li, Fanwen

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关键词： Alpine Merino sheep; additive effects; dominant effects; prediction accuracy; genomic prediction

期刊名称：FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE （ 影响因子：3.412； 五年影响因子：3.588 ）

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年卷期： 2020 年 7 卷

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摘要： Dominant genetic effects may provide a critical contribution to the total genetic variation of quantitative and complex traits. However, investigations of genome-wide markers to study the genomic prediction (GP) and genetic mechanisms of complex traits generally ignore dominant genetic effects. The increasing availability of genomic datasets and the potential benefits of the inclusion of non-additive genetic effects in GP have recently renewed attention to incorporation of these effects in genomic prediction models. In the present study, data from 498 genotyped Alpine Merino sheep were adopted to estimate the additive and dominant genetic effects of 9 wool and blood traits via two linear models: (1) an additive effect model (MAG) and (2) a model that included both additive and dominant genetic effects (MADG). Moreover, a method of 5-fold cross validation was used to evaluate the capability of GP in the two different models. The results of variance component estimates for each trait suggested that for fleece extension rate (73%), red blood cell count (28%), and hematocrit (25%), a large component of phenotypic variation was explained by dominant genetic effects. The results of cross validation demonstrated that the MADG model, comprising additive and dominant genetic effects, did not display an apparent advantage over the MAG model that included only additive genetic effects, i.e., the model that included dominant genetic effects did not improve the capability for prediction of the genomic model. Consequently, inclusion of dominant effects in the GP model may not be beneficial for wool and blood traits in the population of Alpine Merino sheep.

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