Emmanuel A Lozada-Soto, Kristen L Parker Gaddis, Francesco Tiezzi, Jicai Jiang, Li Ma, Sajjad Toghiani, Paul M VanRaden, Christian Maltecca
This study leveraged a growing data set of producer-recorded phenotypes for mastitis, reproductive diseases (metritis and retained placenta), and metabolic diseases (ketosis, milk fever, and displaced abomasum) to investigate the potential presence of inbreeding depression for these disease traits. Phenotypic, pedigree, and genomic information were obtained for 354,043 and 68,292 US Holstein and Jersey cows, respectively. Total inbreeding coefficients were calculated using both pedigree and genomic information; the latter included inbreeding estimates obtained using a genomic relationship matrix and runs of homozygosity (ROH)...
December 4, 2023: Journal of Dairy Science