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A Legarra¹, I Aguilar²

¹Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding, Bowie, MD 20716; Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

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This study introduces new methods to improve the Unknown Parent Groups (UPG) model in genetic evaluations by defining rules for forming UPG. Joining UPG improved accuracy for health traits but had minimal impact on yield traits.

Keywords:

accuracy breeds genetic groups missing pedigree

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Area of Science:

Animal Breeding and Genetics
Quantitative Genetics
Statistical Genetics

Background:

Unknown Parent Groups (UPG) in genetic evaluations can lead to missing parentships, affecting accuracy.
Systematic rules are needed for forming UPG, especially with increasingly complex genetic evaluations.
Accurate UPG formation is crucial for reliable genetic evaluations and breeding value estimation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate methods for defining rules to form Unknown Parent Groups (UPG).
To ascertain the informativity and join consecutive UPG within breed and pathway to improve genetic evaluations.
To estimate the precision of contrasts between UPG using a simplified model.

Main Methods:

Propagating fractions of records from descendants to ancestors to compute pseudocounts.
Implementing two rules for joining UPG: forward in time until records appear and backward to a minimum pseudocount.
Utilizing a simplified model to estimate the precision of contrasts between UPG.
Applying methods to US traditional BLUP evaluations for yield and health traits.

Main Results:

Joining UPG significantly impacted genetic trends and estimated breeding values for health traits, especially in small breeds.
For yield traits, joining UPG had minimal effect on estimated breeding values and genetic trends, with high pseudorecord numbers.
The proposed joining strategies for UPG increased precision, indicated by lower standard errors in contrasts.
Computations were feasible for large datasets.

Conclusions:

The developed methods provide systematic rules for forming UPG, enhancing genetic evaluation accuracy.
Joining UPG is particularly beneficial for traits like health, especially in smaller breeds.
The findings demonstrate the importance of refined UPG definition for accurate genetic trend and breeding value estimation.