African Cattle Genomics Exchange

Current use of genomics / genetics in African livestock systems

• Below is a summary of contributions to date on the topic “What (real) examples of the application of genomic or genetic information to African livestock production systems (regardless of species) do we have to-date, and what was successful or not successful about these, and why”

  Updated 22nd August, 2016

  Application	Country	Species / traits	Intended use	Actual use	Contributor
  Genetic diversity/population structure	Nigeria	Goats, some sheep, chicken, few cattle			Abdulmojeed Yakubu
  	Cameroon	Cattle	To inform breeding and conservation decisions		Ngono Ema
  Pathogen detection / disease diagnostics	Nigeria	Swine, cattle, poultry		Animal health applications, championed by National Veterinary Institute	Oladeji Bamidele   Abdulmojeed Yakubu
  Breed composition of admixed populations	Senegal	Cattle		Comparison of productivity and household profit for keeping different breed-types – to create an evidence base for a genetic improvement strategy	Karen Marshall
  	Rwanda	Cattle		Identification of bull calves as a source of germplasm and breeding lines, in relation to a ‘One Cow per Family’ program	Mizeck Chagunda
  	Kenya	Cattle-dairy		Feeding into test of genomic prediction ability (see below)	Raphael Mrode
  Breeding program using genomic predictions	Kenya	Cattle – dairy		Test of genomic prediction ability  (using GBLUP & Bayes C; 1000 genotyped and phenotyped crossbred animals)	Raphael Mrode
  Identification of underlying genes / gene-networks	Nigeria	Cattle (local) – heat tolerance & productivity	Genetically improved animals		Oladeji Bamidele

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