An interval mapping procedure based on the random model approach was applied to investigate its robustness and properties for QTL mapping in populations with prevailing half-sib structures. Under random model, QTL location and variance components were estimated using maximum likelihood procedures. The estimation of parameters was based on sib-pair approach. The proportions of genes identical-by-descent (IBD) at the two QTLs were estimated from the IBD at two flanking marker loci. Estimates for QTLs parameters (locations and variance components) and power […]

Weights at birth, at weaning and monthly from 8 to 19 months of age of the 11 genotype identified by combination of polymorphic RFLP’s of the genes kappa-casein-HinfI (CSN3): AA and AB, growth hormone-AluI (GH): LL and LV, and b-lactoglobulin-HaeIII (LGB): AA, AB and BB (G1=AALLAA, G2=AALLAB, G3=AALLBB, G4=AALVAB, G5=AALVBB, G6=ABLLAA, G7=ABLLAB, G8=ABLLBB, G9=ABLVAA, G10=ABLVAB e G11=ABLVBB) were used. Data were obtained from three genetic groups: ½Canchim-Nelore (CN), ½Angus-Nelore (AN) and ½Simmental-Nelore (SN), born in 1998 and 1999 in Southeast […]

Records of the weights at birth, weaning and monthly from 8 to 19 months of age from three genetic groups: ½Canchim-Nellore (CN), ½Angus-Nellore (AN) e ½Simmental-Nellore (SN), born in 1998 and 1999 in Southeast Brazil, were used to fit a Logistic nonlinear model that included the fixed effects of the contemporary group and genotype of the genes kappa-casein-HinfI (CSN3): AA and AB, growth hormone-AluI (GH): LL and LV, and b-lactoglobulin-HaeIII (LGB): AA, AB and BB, to examine the effect of […]