One Hundred Years of Statistical Developments in Animal Breeding

Daniel Gianola; Guilherme J.M. Rosa

doi:10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110733

Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Volume 3, 2015

Review Article

One Hundred Years of Statistical Developments in Animal Breeding

Daniel Gianola^1,2,3,4,5, and Guilherme J.M. Rosa^1,2
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Affiliations: ¹Department of Animal Sciences, ²Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and ³Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; email: [email protected], [email protected] ⁴Institute of Advanced Studies, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany ⁵Chair of Plant Breeding at TUM-Weihenstephan, 85354 Freising, Germany
Vol. 3:19-56 (Volume publication date February 2015) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110733
First published as a Review in Advance on November 03, 2014
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Abstract

Statistical methodology has played a key role in scientific animal breeding. Approximately one hundred years of statistical developments in animal breeding are reviewed. Some of the scientific foundations of the field are discussed, and many milestones are examined from historical and critical perspectives. The review concludes with a discussion of some future challenges and opportunities arising from the massive amount of data generated by livestock, plant, and human genome projects.

Keyword(s): animal breeding, complex traits, quantitative genetics, selective breeding, statistical methodology

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