Animal Breeding & Genetics

Wednesday, March 14, 2018: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
202 (CenturyLink Convention Center)
Moderator:
Lauren L. Hulsman Hanna
8:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:35 AM
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Investigating the Presence of Social Effects in a Swine Nucleus Herd
Danielle F. Wilson-Wells, DNA Genetics; Tom A. Rathje, DNA Genetics and Caitlyn E. Bruns, DNA Genetics
8:50 AM
32
A Survey of Copy Number Variation in the Porcine Genome Detected from Whole-Genome Sequence
Brittney N. Keel, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center; Dan J. Nonneman, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center and Gary A. Rohrer, USDA, ARS, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
9:05 AM
33
Quantifying Resilience from Individual Feed Intake Data in a Natural Disease Challenge Model for Growing Pigs
Austin M. Putz, Iowa State University; John C. S. Harding, University of Saskatchewan; Michael K. Dyck, University of Alberta; PigGen Canada, PigGen Canada; Frederic Fortin, Centre de developpement du porc du Quebec; Graham S. Plastow, Livestock Gentec Centre, University of Alberta and Jack C. M. Dekkers, Iowa State University
9:20 AM
34
The Impact of Truncating Data on the Predictive Ability of Selection Candidate EBV in Swine Using Ssgblup.
Jeremy T. Howard, University of Nebraska; Tom A. Rathje, DNA Genetics; Caitlyn E. Bruns, DNA Genetics; Danielle F. Wilson-Wells, DNA Genetics; Stephen D Kachman, University of Nebraska and Matt L. Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:35 AM
35
Software Development for Deterministic Prediction of Selection Response in Livestock Breeding Programs Using Genomic Information
Hailin Su, Iowa State University; Piter Bijma, Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University; Julius van der Werf, School of Environmental & Rural Science, University of New England and Jack C. M. Dekkers, Iowa State University
9:50 AM
Break
10:20 AM
37
An Assessment of Genomic Relatedness across Management Units
Haipeng Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matt L. Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Ronald M. Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gota Morota, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
10:35 AM
38
Effectiveness of Genomic Testing in Predicting Carcass Characteristics and Feedlot Performance
Warren C Rusche, Animal Science Department, South Dakota State University; Julie A Walker, Animal Science Department, South Dakota State University and Michael G Gonda, Animal Science Department, South Dakota State University
10:50 AM
Concluding Remarks
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