Accuracy of genomic breeding values for residual feed intake in crossbred beef cattle

Mujibi, F. D. N., Nkrumah, J. D., Durunna, O. N., Stothard, P., Mah, J., Wang, Z., Basarab, J., Plastow, G., Crews Jr., D. H. and Moore, S. S. (2011) Accuracy of genomic breeding values for residual feed intake in crossbred beef cattle. Journal of Animal Science, 89 11: 3353-3361.


Author Mujibi, F. D. N.
Nkrumah, J. D.
Durunna, O. N.
Stothard, P.
Mah, J.
Wang, Z.
Basarab, J.
Plastow, G.
Crews Jr., D. H.
Moore, S. S.
Title Accuracy of genomic breeding values for residual feed intake in crossbred beef cattle
Journal name Journal of Animal Science  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank A*)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2011-06
Sub-type Article
DOI 10.2527/jas.2010-336
Volume number 89
Issue number 11
ISSN 0021-8812
1525-3163
Start page 3353
End page 3361
Total pages 9
Place of publication Savoy, IL, United States
Publisher American Society of Animal Science
Collection year 2012
Language eng
Abstract The benefit of using genomic breeding values (GEBV) in predicting ADG, DMI, and residual feed intake for an admixed population was investigated. Phenotypic data consisting of individual daily feed intake measurements for 721 beef cattle steers tested over 5 yr was available for analysis. The animals used were an admixed population of spring-born steers, progeny of a cross between 3 sire breeds and a composite dam line. Training and validation data sets were defined by randomly splitting the data into training and testing data sets based on sire family so that there was no overlap of sires in the 2 sets. The random split was replicated to obtain 5 separate data sets. Two methods (BayesB and random regression BLUP) were used to estimate marker effects and to define marker panels and ultimately the GEBV. The accuracy of prediction (the correlation between the phenotypes and GEBV) was compared between SNP panels. Accuracy for all traits was low, ranging from 0.223 to 0.479 for marker panels with 200 SNP, and 0.114 to 0.246 for marker panels with 37,959 SNP, depending on the genomic selection method used. This was less than accuracies observed for polygenic EBV accuracies, which ranged from 0.504 to 0.602. The results obtained from this study demonstrate that the utility of genetic markers for genomic prediction of residual feed intake in beef cattle may be suboptimal. Differences in accuracy were observed between sire breeds when the random regression BLUP method was used, which may imply that the correlations obtained by this method were confounded by the ability of the selected SNP to trace breed differences. This may also suggest that prediction equations derived from such an admixed population may be useful only in populations of similar composition. Given the sample size used in this study, there is a need for increased feed intake testing if substantially greater accuracies are to be achieved.
Keyword Accuracy
Beef Cattle
Genomic breeding value
Residual feed intake
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Q-Index Code C1
Q-Index Status Confirmed Code
Institutional Status Non-UQ

Document type: Journal Article
Sub-type: Article
Collections: Non HERDC
Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
 
Versions
Version Filter Type
Citation counts: TR Web of Science Citation Count  Cited 5 times in Thomson Reuters Web of Science Article | Citations
Scopus Citation Count Cited 7 times in Scopus Article | Citations
Google Scholar Search Google Scholar
Access Statistics: 34 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics
Created: Thu, 09 Feb 2012, 14:45:40 EST by Stephen Moore on behalf of Qld Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation