Raphael Mrode
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Raphael Mrode commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
I just want to comment on the point made by Charles in terms of basing GS on data from government Institutions and few producers initially. Actually this is a very good approach and one may regard reference population from government institutions and few producers as a nucleus herd of some sort where more detailed phenotyping could be…[Read more]
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Raphael Mrode commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Firstly, I will give a summary of the some of the work done using genomics based on the Kenya data generated from the Dairy Genetic EAST Africa Project (DGEA). Just over a thousand cows (crossbreeds) were genotyped and test day milk records were also collected over a period of time. We were able to successfully determine the breed composition of…[Read more]
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Raphael Mrode commented on the post, Building a genomic reference resource on African cattle 5 years, 5 months ago
In developed countries, individual countries have realized that they could not build adequate genomic reference resources on their due cost and the number of animals required. Consequently we have blocks of countries such as the North American Consortium consisting of USA, Canada, Italy and UK and the Euro-genetic consisting of France, Germany,…[Read more]
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