Mehdi Momen

Mehdi Momen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistical Genetics and Genomics

Performance of pedigree and various forms of marker‐derived relationship coefficients in genomic prediction and their correlations

Published in Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 2020

Recommended citation: Solaymani, Samaneh, Ahmad Ayatollahi Mehrgardi, Ali Esmailizadeh, Llibertat Tusell, and Mehdi Momen. "Performance of pedigree and various forms of marker‐derived relationship coefficients in genomic prediction and their correlations." Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics (2020). https://www.g3journal.org/content/9/10/3369

Full text is here: **Abstract** We showed that the superiority of GK‐based model depends on the smoothing parameters (θ) so that with an optimum θ value, the GK‐based model statistically yielded better performance (higher predictive correlation, lowest MSE and unbiased estimates) and more stable correlations and heritability than the model with IBD, IBS or urn:x-wiley:09312668:media:jbg12467:jbg12467-math-0008 kinship matrices or any of the linear combinations.