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Hereditas(Beijing) ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 421-430.doi: 10.16288/j.yczz.24-036

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Comparison of genomic prediction methods for early growth traits of Inner Mongolia cashmere goats based on multi trait models

Linyu Gao1(), Qi Xu1, Yuxiao He1, Haijiao Xi1, Yifan Liu1, Tao Zhang1, Jinquan Li1,2, Yanjun Zhang1, Ruijun Wang1, Qi Lü1, Bujun Mei4, Rui Su1, Zhiying Wang1,3()   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Meat Sheep Genetic Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Hohhot 010018, China
    3. Key Laboratory of Sheep Genetic Breeding and Reproduction in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010018, China
    4. Department of Agriculture, Hetao University, Bayannur 015000, China
  • Received:2024-01-31 Revised:2024-04-25 Online:2024-05-06 Published:2024-05-06
  • Contact: Zhiying Wang E-mail:gaolinyu0629@163.com;wzhy0321@126.com
  • Supported by:
    National Key Research and Development Program(2022YFE0113300);National Key Research and Development Program(2022YFD1300201);National Key Research and Development Program(2022YFD1300204);Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Research Project(2021GG0086);Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Higher Education Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Program(NJYT22038);Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Technical System for Woolen Sheep Industry(CARS-39);High Level Achievement Cultivation Project of Inner Mongolia Agricultural University(QT202201);Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Higher Education Innovation Team Development Program(NMGIRT2322);Basic Research Expenses of Universities Directly of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(BR220112)

Abstract:

Inner Mongolia cashmere goat is an excellent livestock breed formed through long-term natural selection and artificial breeding, and is currently a world-class dual-purpose breed producing cashmere and meat. Multi trait animal model is considered to significantly improve the accuracy of genetic evaluation in livestock and poultry, enabling indirect selection between traits. In this study, the pedigree, genotype, environment, and phenotypic records of early growth traits of Inner Mongolia cashmere goats were used to build multi trait animal model., Then three methods including ABLUP, GBLUP, and ssGBLUP wereused to estimate the genetic parameters and genomic breeding values of early growth traits (birth weight, weaning weight, average daily weight gain before weaning, and yearling weight). The accuracy and reliability of genomic estimated breeding value are further evaluated using the five fold cross validation method. The results showed that the heritability of birth weight estimated by three methods was 0.13-0.15, the heritability of weaning weight was 0.13-0.20, heritability of daily weight gain before weaning was 0.11-0.14, and the heritability of yearling weight was 0.09-0.14, all of which belonged to moderate to low heritability. There is a strong positive genetic correlation between weaning weight and daily weight gain before weaning, daily weight gain before weaning and yearling weight, with correlation coefficients of 0.77-0.79 and 0.56-0.67, respectively. The same pattern was found in phenotype correlation among traits. The accuracy of the estimated breeding values by ABLUP, GBLUP, and ssGBLUP methods for birth weight is 0.5047, 0.6694, and 0.7156, respectively; the weaning weight is 0.6207, 0.6456, and 0.7254, respectively; the daily weight gain before weaning was 0.6110, 0.6855, and 0.7357 respectively; and the yearling weight was 0.6209, 0.7155, and 0.7756, respectively. In summary, the early growth traits of Inner Mongolia cashmere goats belong to moderate to low heritability, and the speed of genetic improvement is relatively slow. The genetic improvement of other growth traits can be achieved through the selection of weaning weight. The ssGBLUP method has the highest accuracy and reliability in estimating genomic breeding value of early growth traits in Inner Mongolia cashmere goats, and is significantly higher than that from ABLUP method, indicating that it is the best method for genomic breeding of early growth weight in Inner Mongolia cashmere goats.

Key words: Inner Mongolia cashmere goat, early growth traits, multi trait animal model, accuracy of genomic estimated breeding value