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Expected values for the accuracy of predicted breeding values accounting for genetic differences between reference and target populations

Beatriz C. D. Cuyabano
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Didier Boichard
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Cedric Gondro
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AbstractBackgroundGenetic merit, or breeding values as referred to in livestock and crop breeding programs, is one of the keys to the successful selection of animals in commercial farming systems. The developments in statistical methods during the twentieth century and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip technologies in the twenty-first century have revolutionized agricultural production, by allowing highly accurate predictions of breeding values for selection candidates at a very early age. Nonetheless, for many breeding populations, realized accuracies of predicted breeding values (PBV) remain below the theoretical maximum, even when the reference population is sufficiently large, and SNPs included in the model are in sufficient linkage disequilibrium (LD) with the quantitative trait locus (QTL). This is particularly noticeable over generations, as we observe the so-called erosion of the effects of SNPs due to recombinations, accompanied by the erosion of the accuracy of prediction. While accurately quantifying the erosion at the individual SNP level is a difficult and unresolved task, quantifying the erosion of the accuracy of prediction is a more tractable problem. In this paper, we describe a method that uses the relationship between reference and target populations to calculate expected values for the accuracies of predicted breeding values for non-phenotyped individuals accounting for erosion. The accuracy of the expected values was evaluated through simulations, and a further evaluation was performed on real data.ResultsUsing simulations, we empirically confirmed that our expected values for the accuracy of PBV accounting for erosion were able to correctly determine the prediction accuracy of breeding values for non-phenotyped individuals. When comparing the expected to the realized accuracies of PBV with real data, only one out of the four traits evaluated presented accuracies that were significantly higher than the expected, approaching h2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\sqrt{{{\text{h}}}^{2}}$$\end{document}.ConclusionsWe defined an index of genetic correlation between reference and target populations, which summarizes the expected overall erosion due to differences in allele frequencies and LD patterns between populations. We used this correlation along with a trait’s heritability to derive expected values for the accuracy (R\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\text{R}}$$\end{document}) of PBV accounting for the erosion, and demonstrated that our derived ER|erosion\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\text{E}}\left[{\text{R}}|{\text{erosion}}\right]$$\end{document} is a reliable metric.
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hal-04487620 , version 1 (04-03-2024)

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Beatriz C. D. Cuyabano, Didier Boichard, Cedric Gondro. Expected values for the accuracy of predicted breeding values accounting for genetic differences between reference and target populations. Genetics Selection Evolution, 2024, 56 (1), pp.15. ⟨10.1186/s12711-024-00876-9⟩. ⟨hal-04487620⟩
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