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  • Animal Breeding and Genetics
  • Genomics
  • Quantitative Genetics

Background:

  • Crossbreeding in livestock leverages heterosis and breed complementarity for enhanced performance.
  • Genomic selection (GS) can optimize purebred parental lines for superior crossbred performance (CP).
  • Dominance, the likely genetic basis of heterosis, necessitates explicit inclusion in GS models for effective purebred selection for CP.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the benefits of GS for selecting purebred animals for CP using purebred data.
  • To compare the efficacy of using two separate pure line reference populations versus a single combined population.
  • To investigate these benefits under varying levels of linkage disequilibrium (LD) phase correlation between pure lines.

Main Methods:

  • Simulation study utilizing purebred phenotypic and genotypic data.
  • Application of genomic selection models incorporating additive and dominance effects.
  • Comparison of selection strategies using separate versus combined reference populations.

Main Results:

  • Selecting parental lines for CP consistently yielded higher gains than selecting for purebred performance, irrespective of LD phase correlation.
  • For low LD phase correlation, two separate reference populations outperformed a single combined population.
  • For high LD phase correlation, a single combined reference population improved CP gains due to more accurate marker effect estimation.

Conclusions:

  • A dominance model enables effective GS of purebreds for CP without crossbred data, assuming dominance underlies performance differences.
  • Combining pure lines into a single reference population for marker effect estimation boosts selection accuracy when LD phase correlation is high.
  • GS strategies should consider LD phase correlation for optimal selection of purebreds for enhanced crossbred performance.