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A note on increasing the limit of selection through selection within families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Leo Dempfle
Leo Dempfle
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14850†
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It is shown that, in a finite population, by ensuring an equal contribution of offspring from each family we achieve a higher selection limit than by using mass selection, given that the correlation between selection criterion and additive genetic value is sufficiently high. The difference between the selection limits of the two schemes increases with more intense selection. The theoretical results were verified by Monte Carlo Simulation, and the influences of several factors were investigated. It is shown that such a breeding scheme might be useful in dairy cattle.

Type
Research Article
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 127 - 135
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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