Developments in quantitative genetics

Date: 06 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Zengting Liu (D)

Theatre

• Use of genomic information for genetic improvement of livestock (Meuwissen, T.H.E.)

• An approximate interval mapping procedure for selective DNA pooling (Dolezal, M., H. Schwarzenbacher, J. Sölkner and P.M. Visscher)

• Background bias on cDNA micro-arrays (Pool, M.H., B. Hulsegge and L.L.G. Janss)

• Modelling liveweight change over a lactation in Irish dairy cows (Quinn, N., L. Killen and F. Buckley)

• Genetic selection against cannibalism related mortality in layer chicken (Ellen, E.D., W.M. Muir and P. Bijma)

• Selection for intramuscular fat in Duroc pigs using real-time ultrasound (Baas, T.J., C.R. Schwab and K.J. Stalder)

• From single loci to chromosome segments: a different quantitative genetic perspective (Simianer, H., C. Flury, M. Tietze and H. Täubert)

• Genetic analyses of traits affected by interaction among individuals (Bijma, P. and W.M. Muir)

• Validation of an approximate approach to compute genetic correlations between longevity and linear traits (Tarres, J., J. Piedrafita and V. Ducrocq)

• Different selection strategies for improving lactation milk yield and persistency (Lin, C.Y. and K. Togashi)

• Estimation of realised genetic trends in French Large White pigs from 1977 to 1998 using frozen semen: farrowing and early lactation periods (Canario, L., T. Tribout, J. Gogué and J.P. Bidanel)

• Graphic explanation of response prediction in long-term selection program (Nishida, A., K. Suzuki and Y. Ohtomo)

Poster

• The construction of indexes with constant restrictions by iterative procedure (Lin, C.Y.)

• Multiple traits Bayesian analysis of birth, weaning and yearling body weights of Egyptian Zaraibi goat (Shaat, I., L. Varona and W. Mekkawy)

• Development of epistatic variance components in the two locus bi-allelic model (Curik, I., J. Sölkner and M. Kaps)

• LDLA, a package to compute IBD matrices for QTL fine mapping by variance component methods (Janss, L.L.G. and H.C.M. Heuven)

• Genetic evaluation using markers completely linked to QTLs (Liu, Y. and P.K. Mathur)

• Estimate of genetic parameters for competition effect in selected line of Duroc pigs (Oikawa, T., A. Nagata, M. Tomiyama, K. Suzuki, H. Kadowaki and T. Shibata)