Session 22. Advances in quantitative genetics

Date: 25 August 2010; 08:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Szyda (PL)

Theatre Session 22

• Large scale genomic evaluation in dairy cattle
  Liu, Z.
• Modelling aspects of association studies of quantitative traits in farmed livestock
  Pollott, G.E.
• Genome partitioning of genetic variance for production traits in Holstein cattle
  Pimentel, E.C.G., Simianer, H. and König, S.
• The role of covariance between genome segments for genetic variation and selection
  Simianer, H. and Pimentel, E.C.G.
• How much genetic variation is explained by dense SNP chips?
  Woolliams, J.A., Vanraden, P.M. and Daetwyler, H.D.
• Localizing quantitative trait loci with the modified version of the Bayesian Information Criterion: a need for a multiple testing adjustment
  Bogdan, M.
• Are there genes regulating environmental variation? A case study using yield in maize
  Yang, Y., Schön, C. and Sorensen, D.
• First results from a divergent selection experiment for environmental variability of birth weight in Mus musculus
  Nieto, B., Salgado, C., Cervantes, I., Pérez-Cabal, M.A., Ibáñez-Escriche, N. and Gutiérrez, J.P.
• Prediction of 305 days milk production using artificial neural network in Iranian dairy cattle
  Abbassi Daloii, T., Tahmoorespur, M., Nassiri, M.R., Abbassi Daloii, M., Hosseini, K. and Zabetian, M.

Poster Session 22

• Analysis the probability of pregnancy after the first insemination in Iranian Holstein cow using a logistic statistical approach
  Bahri Binabaj, F., Farhangfar, H., Shamshirgaran, Y. and Taheri, A.
• Comparison of fixed and random regression test-day models for genetic evaluation of milk yield trait of Iranian Holstein cows
  Shamshirgaran, Y., Aslaminejhad, A.A., Tahmoorespour, M., Farhangfar, H., Bahri Binabaj, F. and Taheri, A.
• Environmental and genetics effects influencing the ponderal development up to weaning time of Nellore animals raised in the Southeast Brazil
  Vieira, D.H., Medeiros, L.F.D., Souza, J.C.D., Oliveira, J.P., Pinto, J.B., Pedrosa, I.A., Surge, C.A., Silveira, J.P.F. and Vieira Junior, L.C.