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Use of different marker pre-selection methods based on single SNP regression in the estimation of Genomic-EBVs

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Pages 117-119 | Published online: 07 Mar 2016
 

Abstract

Two methods of SNPs pre-selection based on single marker regression for the estimation of genomic breeding values (G-EBVs) were compared using simulated data provided by the XII QTL-MAS workshop: i) Bonferroni correction of the significance threshold and ii) Permutation test to obtain the reference distribution of the null hypothesis and identify significant markers at P<0.01 and P<0.001 significance thresholds. From the set of markers significant at P<0.001, random subsets of 50% and 25% markers were extracted, to evaluate the effect of further reducing the number of significant SNPs on G-EBV predictions. The Bonferroni correction method allowed the identification of 595 significant SNPs that gave the best G-EBV accuracies in prediction generations (82.80%). The permutation methods gave slightly lower G-EBV accuracies even if a larger number of SNPs resulted significant (2,053 and 1,352 for 0.01 and 0.001 significance thresholds, respectively). Interestingly, halving or dividing by four the number of SNPs significant at P<0.001 resulted in an only slightly decrease of G-EBV accuracies. The genetic structure of the simulated population with few QTL carrying large effects, might have favoured the Bonferroni method.

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