ارزیابی ژنتیکی تعداد تلقیح منجر به آبستنی در گاوهای شیری ایران با و بدون استفاده از داده‌های سانسور شده

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 دانش‌آموخته کارشناسی ارشد، گروه علوم دامی، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه کردستان

2 دانشیار، گروه علوم دامی، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه کردستان

3 دانشیار، گروه علوم دامی، دانشکده کشاورزی، دانشگاه جیرفت

چکیده

هدف از پژوهش حاضر، بررسی نقش رکوردهای سانسور شده بر تخمین فراسنجه­های ژنتیکی برای صفت تعداد تلقیح منجر به آبستنی در گاوهای شیری ایران بود. داده‌های مورد استفاده در این پژوهش شامل 29621 رکورد زایش اول مربوط به هشت گله بودند که طی سال‌های 1383 تا 1396، به وسیله شرکت تعاونی وحدت اصفهان جمع‌آوری شده بود. برای ارزیابی ژنتیکی این صفت از پنج مدل شامل: مدل آستانه‌ای، مدل پنالتی، مدل پنالتی اصلاح‌ شده، مدل خطی-آستانه‌ای و مدل خطی-آستانه‌ای اصلاح شده استفاده و قدرت پیش‌بینی مدل‌ها با استفاده از اعتبارسنجی متقابل مقایسه شد. همچنین، یک مطالعه شبیه‌سازی برای تعیین مدل مناسب انجام گرفت. وراثت‌پذیری حاصل با استفاده از مدل‌های مختلف از 03/0 تا 07/0 متغیر بود. نسبت حیوانات برتر مشترک در صدک‌های مختلف بین مدل‌ها نشان داد که نوع مدل می‌تواند در رتبه‌بندی حیوانات برتر اثرگذار باشد. صحت پیش‌بینی ارزش اصلاحی با مدل‌های مختلف، در مدل‌هایی که دارای رکوردهای سانسور شده بودند، بیشتر از مدل بدون رکوردهای سانسور شده بود. نتایج شبیه‌سازی نشان داد که مدل‌های دارای رکورد سانسور شده، برآورد صحیح‌تری از فراسنجه­های ژنتیکی ارائه می‌دهند. از این رو، استفاده‌ از رکوردهای سانسور شده در ارزیابی ژنتیکی صفت تعداد تلقیح منجر به آبستنی در گاوهای زایش اول هلشتاین ایران ضروری است.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Genetic evaluation of the number of services per conception with and without censored data in Iranian dairy cows

نویسندگان [English]

  • M. Atapour 1
  • M. Razmkabir 2
  • M. Mokhtari 3
1 Former MSc Student, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
چکیده [English]

Introduction: The profitability of dairy cattle herds mainly depends on the reproductive performance of cows. Because reproductive performance is effective on the amount of daily milk and calf production per cow, increasing the number of inseminations per conception, lengthening the calving interval in the herd, and causing the voluntary (due to the age of the animal) and involuntary (due to illness or fertility disorders) elimination. For evaluating fertility traits, we sometimes come across domains whose records were incomplete at the time, out of range, or delayed. These records are called censored records. The typical way to deal with such records is to delete them from the data set. However, this reduces the information available for genetic evaluation and may affect trait variance by masking actual genetic differences between animals. Another way is to use appropriate statistical methods to place censored records in genetic evaluations. The use of censored records in genetic evaluations yields more reliable genetic parameters, and it can increase the estimation accuracy of breeding values giving the support that the breeding value estimation is close to the true breeding value. The present study aimed to investigate the role of censored records in the estimation of genetic parameters of the number of inseminations per conception in Iranian dairy cows.
Materials and methods: The dataset included 29621 records collected from 2005 to 2019 by the Vahdat Cooperative of Isfahan in Iran. FoxPro software (version 9.0) was used to edit and prepare data, remove incorrect records and create contemporary groups. Five animal models, including Threshold Model (TM), Penalty Model (PM), Modified Penalty Model (MPM), Threshold-Threshold Model (TTM), and Modified Threshold-Threshold Model (MTTM), were used for the genetic evaluation of this trait. The predictive ability of the models was assessed using cross-validation. Also, a simulation study was performed to determine the appropriate model.
Results and discussion: The estimated heritability using different models was 0.3 (0.013), 0.07 (0.013), 0.07 (0.013), 0.3 (0.13), and 0.4 (0.012) for TM, PM, TTM, MPM, and MTTM, respectively. The highest correlation of breeding values for all animals was between MPM and TM (0.98). The same result was obtained for the best sire (sire with at least 20 daughters). The high correlation shows that these models work similarly in selecting the best sires. The low correlation between models indicates that the models rank sires differently. Therefore, the choice of model can affect the ranking of males. The top 10 sires showed less correlation between models than the active sires. When the number of males decreases, the selection becomes more strict. The prediction accuracy in models with censored records is higher than in models without censored records because the use of models that include censored records is due to the increased information about the trait, and the absence of bias due to deleting records improves the accuracy of estimating breeding values. Consequently, if the censoring status is not taken into account, animals with superior breeding values may be biased. The low ratio of common superior animals in different percentages between models showed that these two models rank the animals differently. Still, the high proportion of common superior animals indicates the similarity of the two models in choosing the best animals. So, model selection can be effective in ranking superior animals because when the censored record is used, the information is increased and the situation would be closer to reality. The cross-validation showed that the accuracy of the breeding value prediction by different models was higher in models with censored records than in models without censored records. The results of the simulation study showed that the models with censored records provided better genetic parameter estimates. TTM has been able to estimate expected heritability better than other models. The percentage of top animals in common between the top 10 and the top one percent of simulated animals with different models showed that the ability of the TTM model to select real top animals is more than other models, which shows that this model has identified top animals better.
Conclusions: The results of the present study showed that the censored records are important for estimating the genetic parameters of the number of inseminations per conception in Iranian dairy cows and ignoring those led to a biased estimation of the parameters. Data simulations also showed that using censored records provided more realistic genetic parameter estimates.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Censored data
  • Genetic Parameters
  • Predictive ability
  • Reproductive performance
  • Threshold model
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