Date: 27 August ‘07; 08:30 - 12:30 hours

Chairperson: T. Meuwissen (NO)

Theatre Session 18

• Genomic selection: a break through for application of marker assisted selection to traits of low heritability, promise and concerns
  Muir, W.M.
• A comparison of different regression methods for genomic-assisted prediction of genetic values in dairy cattle
  Sölkner, J., B. Tier, R. Crump, G. Moser, P. Thomson and H. Raadsma
• Using partial least square regression (PLSR) and principal component regression (PCR) in prediction of genomic selection breeding values
  Solberg, T.R., A.K. Sonesson, J.A. Woolliams and T.H.E. Meuwissen
• Validation of genomic selection in an outbred mouse population
  Legarra, A., E. Manfredi, C. Robert-Granié and J.M. Elsen
• Detection of SNPs associated with chick mortality in broilers: a machine learning approach
  Long, N., D. Gianola, K.A. Weigel, G.J.M. Rosa and S. Avendano
• Use of SNP for marker assisted selection in French dairy cattle
  Guillaume, F., S. Fritz, D. Boichard and T. Druet
• Empirical and theoretical considerations on the impact of genetic interactions on response to selection
  Le Rouzic, A., P.B. Siegel and O. Carlborg
• Modelling genetic epistasis between selected candidate genes for milk production traits in Jersey cattle
  Gontarek, A., J. Komisarek and J. Szyda
• Detection and use of single gene effects in large animal populations
  Gengler, N., M. Szydlowski, S. Abras and R. Renaville
• Model comparison criteria in a global analysis of a microarray experiment
  Díaz, C., N. Moreno-Sánchez, J. Rueda, A. Reverter, Y.H. Wang and M.J. Carabaño
• A Bayesian mixed-model approach for the analysis of microarray gene
  expression data assuming skewed Student-t distributions for random effects
  Casellas, J. and L. Varona
   

Poster Session 18

• A differential evolution Markov chain algorithm to map epistatic QTL
  Rutten, M.J.M., M.C.A.M. Bink and C.J.F. Ter Braak
• Modelling epistasis between quantitative trait loci on swine chromosome six
  Szyda, J., M. Szydłowski and E. Grindflek
• Estimation of Quantitative Trait Loci parameters for somatic cell score in the German Holstein dairy population
  Baes, C., M. Mayer, A. Tuchscherer, F. Reinhardt and N. Reinsch
• The use of the ant colony algorithm for analysis of high-dimension gene expression data sets
  Robbins, K.R., W. Zhang, J.K. Bertrand and R. Rekaya
• Comparison of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and microsatellite polymorphism for QTL mapping
  Schopen, G.C.B., H. Bovenhuis, M.H.P.W. Visker and J.A.M. Van Arendonk
• A method to approximate parents’ contribution to gene content at marker locus
  Szydlowski, M., N. Gengler and M.E. Goddard