A reduced animal model with elimination of quantitative trait loci equations for marker-assisted selection.docVIP

1 Graduate School of Science and Technology; (Received 26 March 1996; accepted 12 July 1996) version of the method with the animal model proposed by Hoeschele for marker-assisted selection is presented. The current RAM approach allows simultaneous evaluation of fixed effects, the total additive genetic merits for parent animals and the additive effects due to quantitative trait loci linked to the among descendant animals with known marker data. An appropriate covariance matrix of the residual effects is given, and formulae for backsolving for non-parent animals are A numerical example is a