Bayesian genetic analysis of milk yield in Tunisian Holstein dairy cattle population英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Genetics, 2012, 2, 103-108 OJGen /10.4236/ojgen.2012.22015 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojgen/) Bayesian genetic analysis of milk yield in Tunisian Holstein dairy cattle population Houcine Ilahi , Mohamed Ben Hammouda , Mohamed Houcine Othmane 1* 2 3 1 2 Université de Carthage, Institut Préparatoire aux Etudes d’Ingénieurs de Bizerte, Zarzouna, Tunisia Institution de Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur Agricoles (IRESA), Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Environnement, Tunis, Tunisia Centre Régional des Recherches Agricoles de Sidi Bouzid, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia 3 Email: houcine.ilahi@ipeib.rnu.tn * Received 6 March 2012; revised 20 April 2012; accepted 9 May 2012 ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION The genetic determinism of 305-d milk yield and its genetic parameters were investigated in Tunisian Hol- stein dairy cattle population through Bayesian segre- gation analyses using a Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) method. Data included 49,709 records of 305-d milk yield collected between 1996 and 2003 from 114 dairy herds. The postulated major gene was assumed to be additive biallelic locus with Mendelian transmission probabilities and priors used for vari- ance components were uniform. Gibbs sampling was used to generate a chain of 500,000 samples, which were used to obtain posterior means of genetic para- meters. Estimated marginal posterior means ± poste- rior standard deviations of variance components of milk yield were 402866.28 ± 23629.97, 271256.66 ± 34477.83, 68276.83 ± 233027.62 and 1098855.75 ± Milk yield is the most important source of income for dairy farmers where high producing cows are usually profitable [1]. The size of Holstein cow population has substantially increas