Journal
JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE
Volume 99, Issue 4, Pages 2863-2866Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-10501
Keywords
genetic parameter; milk protein; multi-trait model; genomic relationship
Funding
- Center for Genomic Selection in Animals and Plants (GenSAP) - Danish Council for Strategic Research
- project Breeding high value milk: BIG MILK of the Milk Levy Fund, Denmark
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Genetic parameters were estimated for the major milk proteins using bivariate and multi-trait models based on genomic relationships between animals. The analyses included, apart from total protein percentage, u.si-casein (CN), alpha(S2)-CN, beta-CN, K-CN, alpha-lactalbumin, and beta-lactoglobulin, as well as the posttranslational sub-forms of glycosylated kappa-CN and alpha(S1)-CN-8P (phosphorylated). Standard errors of the estimates were used to compare the models. In total, 650 Danish Holstein cows across 4 parities and days in milk ranging from 9 to 481 d were selected from 21 herds. The multi-trait model generally resulted in lower standard errors of heritability estimates, suggesting that genetic parameters can be estimated with high accuracy using multi trait analyses with genomic relationships for scarcely recorded traits. The heritability estimates from the multi-trait model ranged from low (0.05 for beta-CN) to high (0.78 for kappa-CN). Genetic correlations between the milk proteins and the total milk protein percentage were generally low, suggesting the possibility to alter protein composition through selective breeding with little effect on total milk protein percentage.
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