The UGA Animal Breeding and Genetics group attended the 2021 ASAS-CSAS-SSASAS Annual Meeting and Trade Show in Louisville, KY from the 13th – 17th July.
There were 10 presentations and 2 posters from the UGA group presented at the meeting:
- Abdollahi-Arpanahi, R., D. Lourenco, I. Misztal. 2021. Detecting Effective Starting Point of Genomic Selection by Divergent Trends from BLUP and SSGBLUP. [PDF]
- Bermann, M., D. Lourenco, V. Breen, R. Hawken, F.B. Lopes, I. Misztal. 2021. Modeling genetic differences of combined broiler chicken populations in single-step GBLUP. [Poster]
- Hidalgo, J., D. Lourenco, S. Tsuruta, Y. Masuda, V. Breen, R. Hawken, M. Bermann, I. Misztal. 2021. Accuracy of genomic predictions over time in broilers. [PDF]
- Hollifield, M.K., D. Lourenco, S. Tsuruta, M. Bermann, J. Howard and I. Misztal. 2021. Impact of including the cause of missing records on genetic evaluations for growth in commercial pigs. [PDF]
- Jang. S., S. Tsuruta, N.G. Leite, I. Misztal, D. Lourenco. 2021. Dimensionality of genomic information and its impact on GWA and variant selection: A simulation study. [PDF]
- Leite, N., C.Y. Chen, W. Herring, S. Tsuruta, D. Lourenco. 2021. Predicting breeding values of purebred pigs for crossbred performance using crossbred phenotypes and genotypes. [PDF]
- Ling, A., E.H. Hay, S.E. Aggrey, R. Rekaya. 2021. Combining different Marker Prioritization Methods in the Analysis of High-density and Sequence Data.
- Ling, A., T. Krause, A. Warner, J. Duggin, B. Heins, N. Hinkle, S. Aggrey, D. Pringle, R. Rekaya. 2021. Genetic parameters of thrombin as a proxy for horn fly abundance in beef cattle. [Poster]
- Lourenco, D., S. Tsuruta, S. Jang, B. Fragomeni, I. Misztal. 2021. When is sequence data going to help increasing accuracy of genomic predictions in livestock? [PDF]
- McWhorter, T.M., A.L.S. Garcia, M. Bermann, A. Legarra, I. Aguilar, I. Misztal, D. Lourenco. 2021. Effect of blending and tuning relationship matrices in single step genomic BLUP. [PDF]
- Misztal, I., I. Pocrnic, D. Lourenco. 2021. Factors Influencing Accuracy of Genomic Selection with Sequence Information. [PDF]
- Steyn, Y., D.A.L. Lourenco, C.Y. Chen, B.D. Valente, J. Holl, W.O. Herring, I. Misztal. 2021. Optimal definition of contemporary groups for crossbred pigs in a joint purebred and crossbred genetic evaluation. [PDF]
Check out some photos from the conference in the gallery below!
Dr. Jorge Hidalgo 
Taylor McWhorter 
Sungbong Jang 
Dr. Ignacy Misztal 
Mary Kate Hollifield 
Ashley Ling 
Yvette Steyn 
Dr. Rostam Abdollahi-Arpanahi 
Natalia Galoro Leite