Sentence examples for breed estimates from inspiring English sources
This reduced set of breeds still showed the lower dispersion in per locus FST values found in the full sample of breeds compared to the three breed estimates.
Foreign students in Italy are a rare breed, estimated at 3.3 percent, about a third of the average of 8.7 percent among the free-market democracies that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The variance components estimated in this study are needed to derive multi-breed estimated breeding values (EBV) for bTB resistance in national genetic evaluations.
The lower diagonal contains the pairwise genetic differentiation between breeds estimated using Weir & Cockerham's FST[ 22].
Of the 113 instances when the within-breed estimated SNP ASEs ranked >500, the average rank was only 2551, suggesting that the majority of these regions harbour QTL that segregate in all breeds.
The proportion of genetic variability accounted for by differences among breeds, estimated by theta in Table S2 [See Additional file 1: Table S2], was 0.198±0.007 across loci, when all 17 populations were considered.
Furthermore, we perform a principal component analysis of these ten breeds, estimate pairwise F ST -values as well as the effective population size of these breeds, discuss the consequences of applying different concepts to selection signature studies and provide some perspectives on future strategies for identifying the selected variants in an artificially sub-divided population.
These findings highlight the probability that some previously published breed risk estimates are misleading.
Genomic breeding values for 1000 selection candidates per breed were estimated using GBLUP modelsincluding a random across- and a within-breed animal effect.
The benefits from a conservation program for this currently unprotected local breed is estimated in a contingent valuation study, while a bio-economic model is used to estimate the costs associated with its in situ conservation.
Within-breed heritability estimates are in Table 3.
