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Estimates of parental-dominance and full-sib permanent environment variances in laying hens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

I. Misztal  and
B. Besbes
I. Misztal
Affiliation:
Animal and Dairy Science Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA
B. Besbes
Affiliation:
Hubbard-ISA, BP 27, 35220 Châteaubourg, France
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Abstract

Estimates of variance components for five egg traits on 26265 laying hens were obtained by restricted maximum likelihood (REML) using several models. In the DOMFS model, the effects included hatch group, additive genetic, full-sib, parental dominance and inbreeding depression. In the DOM model, the full-sib effect was eliminated. In the FS model, the parental dominance effect was eliminated. In the ADD model, both the full-sib and the dominance effects were eliminated. In the DOMFS model, the estimates of the full-sib variance were generally higher for egg production traits and lower for egg characteristics than those of the parental dominance variance. However, this model has partially failed in separating these two components. When the full-sib effect was removed from the model, almost all of its estimated variance moved to the estimated parental dominance variance. When the parental dominance effect was removed from the model, almost all of its estimated variance moved to the estimated full-sib variance. The estimates obtained with REML and the DOM model were compared with those obtained by method R and tilde-hat methodologies. The d2 (ratio of dominance variance to total variance) differed by up to 86% for method R and up to 225% for tilde-hat. The h2 differed by up to 26 and 28%, respectively. For data sets that are too large to be analysed with REML, method R is a feasible alternative. A model for estimation of dominance variance should also include the full-sib or a similar effect, provided the data set is large. Similarly, to analyse egg production traits, the model should include at least the full-sib effect.

Keywords

dominancehensvariancecomponents
Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Science , Volume 71 , Issue 3 , December 2000 , pp. 421 - 426
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 2000

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