Connectedness in the French Holstein cattle population.docVIP

Eric Hanocq’ Didier Boichard Station de génétique quantitative et appliquée, Institut national de la recherche agronomique, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas cedex, France (Received 24 December 1998; accepted 12 February 1999) Abstract - An analysis of connectedness in the French Holstein cattle population was carried out. This study was motivated by the fact that artificial insemination (AI) bulls are evaluated at the national level, whereas they are usually progeny tested only in the region of their AI stud. Connectedness among AI studs was measured by the generalised coefficient of determinati