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Understanding the accuracy of genomic selection
| Genomic selection has become the standard tool for genetic improvement of livestock. To optimise their breeding schemes, breeders need to predict the... -
Award for best quantitative genetics paper 2021
| The editorial board of the scientific journal GENETICS has awarded the 2021 Editors’ Choice Award for an outstanding Quantitative Genetics... -
Genetic selection may eradicate infectious diseases
| Contrary to previously held opinions, genetic selection can actually eradicate infectious diseases. To date, geneticists have ignored the effects of... -
Breeding against infectious diseases is promising
| Infectious diseases have much greater heritability than commonly believed, meaning that animal breeding can substantially reduce the prevalence of... -
Imagine all the animals, living life in sociable groups
| On October 21st, the program anIMAl Group sENsor (IMAGEN) was kicked off. In IMAGEN, researchers of Wageningen University & Research collaborate...