five improved along with three local rice varieties were crossed in a line× tester method in 2001. fifteen f1 hybrids and eight parental genotypes were planted in a randomized complete block design with 3 replications at rice research institute of iran, rasht, in 2002. the main objective of the research was to estimate the general and specific combining ability and gene action for 10 agrnomic a...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four distinct time intervals spanning the period 1985-2009. Unlike standard wage models, specifications with both worker and plant-level heterogeneity components can explain the vast majority of the ...

Breed differences for weight (CW), height (CH), and condition score (CS) were estimated from records (n = 12,188) of 2to 6-yr-old cows (n = 744) from Cycle IV of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center’s Germplasm Evaluation (GPE) Program. Cows were produced from mating Angus and Hereford dams to Angus, Hereford, Charolais, Shorthorn, Galloway, Longhorn, Nellore, Piedmontese, and Salers sires. Sam...

Estimating variances due sire × herd effects requires a large number of sires to be represented in multiple herds, otherwise too much variation between animals is ‘picked up’ as variance due to sire × herd effects, and heritability estimates are biased downwards. Such bias can be avoided by using only records for progeny of multiple-herd use sires to estimate the additive genetic variance. Esti...

For a general cross-over design, combined intra-inter unit reduced normal equations for estimating linear functions of direct and residual effects are obtained under a mixed effects, non-additive model. The unit effects are considered as random and the model allows for possible interactions among treatments applied at successive periods. Several existing families of designs which are optimal un...

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. ANKRD55 rs6859219 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are reported as a potential novel MS risk gene, but the biological reasons underlying this correlation are still mysterious. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the potential association of ANKRD55 rs6859219 SNP with the r...

Gray leaf spot (GLS) is a major maize disease in Brazil that significantly affects grain production. We used Bayesian inference to investigate the nature and magnitude of gene effects related to GLS resistance by evaluation of contrasting lines and segregating populations. The experiment was arranged in a randomized block design with three replications and the mean values were analyzed us...

BACKGROUND The goal of this study was to apply Bayesian and GBLUP methods to predict genomic breeding values (GEBV), map QTL positions and explore the genetic architecture of the trait simulated for the 15th QTL-MAS workshop. METHODS Three methods with models considering dominance and epistasis inheritances were used to fit the data: (i) BayesB with a proportion π = 0.995 of SNPs assumed to h...