Abstract

An existing method for measuring genetic similarity between populations was further developed to include information from ancestors. Genetic similarity is the extent of genetic exchange or the amount of the genetic material that is shared between the gene pools of two populations. Genetic correlations and the number of exchanged individuals have been used traditionally as indicators of genetic similarity. However, genetic correlations are trait-dependent and under the influence of genotype by environment interaction and the number of exchanged individuals do not show the extent of spreading genes from exchanged individuals into two populations. The present method uses the number of progenies from the shared individuals in the two populations without using the parental information of the shared individuals. With the new method, most of the pedigree information is capture without the need to use a relationship matrix. Therefore, it is easy to implement and has a low computational demand. This new method can be used in studies of biodiversity or screening of populations for which genetic correlations are going to be estimated.

Published in

Annual meeting of the European Association for Animal Production
2009, number: 15, pages: 610-610
Book title: Book of abstracts of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Europan Association for Animal Production : Barcelona, Spain, August 24th-27th, 2009
ISBN: 978-90-8686-121-7
Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers

Conference

60th Annual Meeting of the Europan Association for Animal Production : Barcelona, Spain, August 24th-27th, 2009

SLU Authors

• Nilforooshan, Mohammad

  • Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Fish and Wildlife Management


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/28054