Multivariate analysis of test day milk yields of British Holstein‐Friesian heifers using Gibbs sampling
作者:
MehmetZ. Firat,
ChrisM. Theobald,
Robin Thompson,
期刊:
Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A — Animal Science
(Taylor Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 47,
issue 4
页码: 221-229
ISSN:0906-4702
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1080/09064709709362390
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: genetic and phenotypic variance matrices;heritability;multivariate half‐sib sire model;test day milk records
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Estimates and posterior distributions of genetic and phenotypic variance matrices for test day milk records are obtained for 23 873 British Holstein‐Friesian heifers, the progeny of 40 proven and 649 unproven sires, using restricted maximum likelihood (REML) and Gibbs sampling methods with two different prior specifications in a multivariate sire model. Results from the two methods are then compared. The REML estimates and posterior expectations of heritability and individual test day records range from 0.28 to 0.42. Generally, heritabilities for test day records are lowest at the start and highest in the second half of the lactation. Estimates of genetic correlations between test day milk yields range from 0.59 to 0.99, whilst those of phenotypic correlations are between 0.30 and 0.76, the correlations being highest for adjacent tests. Bayesian inferences are more informative, but require much more computer time.
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