precision of genetic parameters and breeding values estimated in marker assisted blup genetic evaluation遗传参数和精度在分子标记辅助育种值估计blup遗传评估.pdf

Genetics Selection Evolution BioMed Central Research Open Access Precision of genetic parameters and breeding values estimated in marker assisted BLUP genetic evaluation 1 1 1 2 Stefan Neuner* , Christian Edel , Reiner Emmerling , Georg Thaller and Kay-Uwe Götz1 Address: 1Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, D-85580 Grub, Germany and 2Christian-Albrechts- University, Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry, D-24098 Kiel, Germany Email: Stefan Neuner* - Stefan.Neuner@lfl.bayern.de; Christian Edel - Christian.Edel@lfl.bayern.de; Reiner Emmerling - Reiner.Emmerling@lfl.bayern.de; Georg Thaller - gthaller@tierzucht.uni-kiel.de; Kay-Uwe Götz - Kay- Uwe.Goetz@lfl.bayern.de * Corresponding author Published: 4 March 2009 Received: 24 February 2009 Accepted: 4 March 2009 Genetics Selection Evolution 2009, 41:26 doi:10.1186/1297-9686-41-26 This article is available from: /content/41/1/26 © 2009 Neuner et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In practical implementations of marker-assisted selection economic and logistic restrictions frequently lead to incomplete genotypic data for the animals of interest. This may resu