the aim of this study was to determine the effect of marker density, level of heritability, number of qtls, and size of training set on the genomic accuracy over three generations. thereby, a trait was simulated with heritability of 0.10, 0.25 or 0.40. for each animal, a genome with 20 chromosomes, 1 morgan each, was simulated. different marker densities (2000, 4000 and 6000 markers) and 400 an...

Can heritability estimates provide causal information? This paper argues for an affirmative answer: since a non-nil estimate satisfies certain characteristic properties of causation (i.e., association, manipulability, and counterfactual dependence), it increases the probability that relation between genotypic variance phenotypic is (at least partly) causal. Contrary to earlier proposals in lite...

pressure and inter-beat interval variability in man. Apart from that the topic of the study is interesting and important, the paper contains some terminological inconsistencies which seriously undermine implications of research and thus, credibility of the conclusions made by the Authors. It is not uncommon to find studies with inconsistent terminology and definitions, with some terms being def...

the aims of this research were to estimate of genetic parameters for pre-weaning traits and lamb survival in iran-black sheep. for this purpose 6344 records for birth weight (bw) and lamb survival (ls) and 5264 records for weaning weight (ww), average daily gain (adg) and kleiber ratio (kr) were available, which collected by abbasabad animal breeding and rearing station, over the period from 19...

hybrids were produced by crossing female caspian kutum rutilus frisii kutum with male grass carp ctenopharyngodon idella. the genome of eight larvae and parents were studied using microsatellite markers for genetic evaluation and verification. after dna extraction from parent fish and progeny, hybrid heritability of two loci was assessed using two pairs of microsatellite primers. hybridizie...