Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (1) G.R. Wiggans Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory Agricultural Research Service, USDA Beltsville, MD Immediate evaluations and new chips
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (2) Immediate evaluation proposal l Proposal to be presented to Board of Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding l Input solicited from Research Advisory Working Group and Nominators
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (3) Efforts in other countries l Weekly evaluations in the Netherlands l Daily evaluations in Germany of animals with 50K genotypes (No imputation required)
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (4) Immediate evaluation details l Released to nominator at 8 am on the Tuesday after genotype is loaded or becomes usable l Contains pedigree, genomic evaluation, parent average, and imputed recessive codes l Approximations for additional fields possible
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (5) Genotypes submitted (June 2014) SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (6) Characteristics l Quick access to evaluations for early decision on which calves to raise l Quick turnaround possible because no reliability calculated l Selection-index combination step approximated with fixed weights
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (7) Comparison with official evaluation l High correlation (.995) with following month’s official evaluation l Reasons for differences w Approximate selection index combination w New estimates of SNP effects w Changes in imputed genotypes w Pedigree changes (e.g., adding maternal grandsire)
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (8) Immediate-evaluation summary l Quick turnaround l Highly accurate prediction of official monthly evaluation l Distribution to nominator, DRPC, and Breed association l Enables early decisions on which calves to raise l Recommended by RAWG, Awaits board action
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (9) Genotype chips Chip NameNo. of SNPChip NameNo. of SNP 50K54,001GHD77,068 50K V254,609GP219,809 3K2,900ZLD11,410 HD777,962ZMD56,955 Affy648,875ELD9,072 LD6,909LD26,912 GGP8,762GP326,151
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (10) Revised low-density chip (July 2014) l GeneSeek Genomic Profiler, version 3 (GP3) w 26,151 SNPs (19,808 for GP2) w 13,218 SNPs used for evaluation (8,422 for GP2) l Improved imputation accuracy especially when: w Missing pedigree w Nongenotyped ancestors l Chip 14 in formats 38 and 105 (August 2014)
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (11) Low-cost chip (in development) l ~ 5,000 SNPs l Built-in validation l Single-gene tests l Lower imputation accuracy if neither parent genotyped l Imputation accuracy within 1% of LD chip if at least 1 parent genotyped
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (12) New GHD version (in development) l 120–150K SNPs l Include 16,248 among the 60,671 SNPs currently used that are not on the GHD l Research underway to determine if adding SNPs with a low to moderate minor allele frequency (MAF) improves accuracy of genomic evaluations
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (13) Chip summary l New versions of chips frequently released w Allows adding SNP for newly discovered causative genetic variants w Improved accuracy from better SNP l New chips Improve value w Lower cost, or w More SNP, same cost
Wiggans, 2014CDCB meeting – August 5 (14) Questions? Holstein and Jersey crossbreds graze on American Farm Land Trust’s Cove Mountain Farm in south-central Pennsylvania Source: ARS Image Gallery, image #K ; photo by Bob Nichols