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Genetics Selection Evolution BioMed Central Research Open Access Purging of inbreeding depression within the Irish Holstein-Friesian population 1,2 3 1 Sinéad Mc Parland* , Francis Kearney and Donagh P Berry 1 2 Address: Teagasc, Moorepark Dairy Production Research Centre, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland, Animal Genomics Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland and 3Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland Email: Sinéad Mc Parland* - sinead.mcparland@teagasc.ie; Francis Kearney - fkearney@; Donagh P Berry - donagh.berry@teagasc.ie * Corresponding author Published: 21 January 2009 Received: 19 January 2009 Accepted: 21 January 2009 Genetics Selection Evolution 2009, 41:16 doi:10.1186/1297-9686-41-16 This article is available from: /content/41/1/16 © 2009 Mc Parland 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 The objective of this study was to investigate whether inbreeding depression in milk produc