Single‐step SNPBLUP evaluation in six German beef cattle breeds

Author:

Adekale Damilola12ORCID,Alkhoder Hatem2ORCID,Liu Zengting2ORCID,Segelke Dierck2ORCID,Tetens Jens1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Functional Breeding – Genetik und züchterische Verbesserung funktionaler Merkmale, GAU Göttingen Germany

2. Biometrie, Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhaltung w.V. Verden Germany

Abstract

AbstractThe implementation of genomic selection for six German beef cattle populations was evaluated. Although the multiple‐step implementation of genomic selection is the status quo in most national dairy cattle evaluations, the breeding structure of German beef cattle, coupled with the shortcoming and complexity of the multiple‐step method, makes single step a more attractive option to implement genomic selection in German beef cattle populations. Our objective was to develop a national beef cattle single‐step genomic evaluation in five economically important traits in six German beef cattle populations and investigate its impact on the accuracy and bias of genomic evaluations relative to the current pedigree‐based evaluation. Across the six breeds in our study, 461,929 phenotyped and 14,321 genotyped animals were evaluated with a multi‐trait single‐step model. To validate the single‐step model, phenotype data in the last 2 years were removed in a forward validation study. For the conventional and single‐step approaches, the genomic estimated breeding values of validation animals and other animals were compared between the truncated and the full evaluations. The correlation of the GEBVs between the full and truncated evaluations in the validation animals was slightly higher in the single‐step evaluation. The regression of the full GEBVs on truncated GEBVs was close to the optimal value of 1 for both the pedigree‐based and the single‐step evaluations. The SNP effect estimates from the truncated evaluation were highly correlated with those from the full evaluation, with values ranging from 0.79 to 0.94. The correlation of the SNP effect was influenced by the number of genotyped animals shared between the full and truncated evaluations. The regression coefficients of the SNP effect of the full evaluation on the truncated evaluation were all close to the expected value of 1, indicating unbiased estimates of the SNP markers for the production traits. The Manhattan plot of the SNP effect estimates identified chromosomal regions harbouring major genes for muscling and body weight in breeds of French origin. Based on the regression intercept and slope of the GEBVs of validation animals, the single‐step evaluation was neither inflated nor deflated across the six breeds. Overall, the single‐step model resulted in a more accurate and stable evaluation. However, due to the small number of genotyped individuals, the single‐step method only provided slightly better results when compared to the pedigree‐based method.

Funder

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology,Food Animals,General Medicine

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