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Using pedigree analysis to determine the genetic diversity of the British dairy population over the last thirty years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

T. Roughsedge ,
S. Brotherstone  and
P.M. Visscher
T. Roughsedge
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JG
S. Brotherstone
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT
P.M. Visscher
Affiliation:
Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JG
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Over the last twenty years the British dairy population has undergone a large importation of Holstein genes, largely from North America and Canada. This study aimed to investigate what effect this importation has had on the genetic diversity of the population and also to look at the change in genetic diversity of the population over the last thirty years.

As computing resources did not facilitate sampling of all cows born in the last thirty years, between 4 and 10 random samples of 2000 Holstein-Friesian cows, born every 5 years from 1967 to 1997 inclusive, were taken from the Holstein Friesian Society of Great Britain and Ireland's database. The base population of this database was born about 1960. The complete ancestry of these cows was traced on the database and these sample pedigrees were used for the various analyses.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 1999 , 1999 , pp. 123
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 1999

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