Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2019, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (12): 2161-2170.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2019.12.013

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Joint Genomic Selection of Yorkshire in Beijing

ZHANG JinXin1,TANG ShaoQing2,SONG HaiLiang1,GAO Hong1,JIANG Yao1,JIANG YiFan1,MI ShiRong3,MENG QingLi4,YU Fan5,XIAO Wei2,YUN Peng2,ZHANG Qing1,DING XiangDong1()   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics/Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture/National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding/College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193
    2 The Beijing Municipal Animal Husbandry Station, Beijing 100107
    3 Beijing Liuma Pig Breeding Co., Ltd., Beijing 101308
    4 Beijing Pig Breeding Center, Beijing 100194
    5 Beijing Shunxin Agricultural Co., Ltd., Beijing 101300
  • Received:2018-09-03 Accepted:2019-04-02 Online:2019-06-16 Published:2019-06-22
  • Contact: XiangDong DING E-mail:xding@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

【Objective】In this study, the molecular breeding via genomic selection was carried out in the joint genomic evaluation on Yorkshire population in Beijing, predicting the breeding value of the new born boars and making selection, so as to improve the selection accuracy of breeding. 【Method】 An admixed population consisting of 4020 individuals from three Yorkshire breeding farms with different genetic background in Beijing was established as the reference group, and the reference animals were selected according to the performance testing records between 2007-2017 in those three pig farms. Three economic traits age at 100 kg (AGE), backfat thickness at 100 kg (BF) and total number born (TNB) were taken into account. The reference and candidate animals were genotyped with Illumina Porcine80K SNP chip. GEBV was estimated by single-step GBLUP (SSGBLUP) method which could make use of both pedigree information and genomic information. GEBVs of candidate boars on the growth traits and reproductive traits were predicted before castration and after performance testing, respectively. Afterwards, the elite candidates were selected according to their GEBVs. Meanwhile, the genetic connectedness among three pig farms was measured by connectedness rating.【Result】Our results showed that the genetic connectedness based on pedigree information among three Yorkshire breeding farms was too low to carry out traditional joint genetic evaluation. However,the genomic relationship coefficients of individuals between farms in G-matrix indicated that genetic links existed among different farms. The genomic selection could realize the joint genomic evaluation through establishing the genetic connectedness via genome-wide markers. A total of 1789 boars were genomic predicted.The accuracy of genomic prediction was largely improved, compared to traditional breeding methods. At the first time of implementing genomic selection or early selection (before the castration of boars), the accuracies of Pedigree Index (PI) for three traits, age at 100 kg (AGE), backfat thickness at 100 kg (BF) and total number born (TNB) were 0.55, 0.56 and 0.41, respectively. However, the accuracies of GEBV from genomic selection were increased to 0.65, 0.70 and 0.60 with improvement of 10, 14 and 19 percentage compared to PI selection, respectively. At the second time of implementing genomic selection (after performance testing), the accuracies of GEBV for AGE, BF and TNB were further increased to 0.78, 0.84 and 0.60, respectively, yielding 8, 12 and 19 percentage higher accuracy than EBV, respectively, in which the accuracies were 0.70, 0.72 and 0.41, respectively. The largest gain of genomic selection was on trait of TNB with low heritability. The early selection based on genomic selection had the same accuracy as traditional selection based on estimated breeding values calculated from performance testing, implying genomic selection could save breeding time and cost with keeping the same accuracy. The comparison of two implementations of genomic selection on 338 boars at different stage showed that the second genomic prediction after performance testing yielded higher accuracy, because the phenotypic records of these boars were also utilized. The accuracies of GEBV for AGE and BF were improved from 0.55, 0.62 to 0.72, 0.84 by increasing 17 and 22 percentage point, respectively. The unbiasedness coefficient was between 0.82 and 1.00, and the unbiasedness of GEBV on traits of AGE and BF were increased from 0.82 and 0.96 to 0.91 and 1.00, respectively. The lower unbiasedness of second genomic selection indicated that the reliability of selecting elite boars was higher.【Conclusion】 Genomic selection could establish genetic connectedness between different farms, enabling joint genetic evaluation which was not feasible in traditional breeding plausible and more breeding farms involved. Compared to traditional PI or EBV selection, genomic selection generated much higher accuracy, and the greatest improvement was obtained on the traits with low heritability. Genomic selection was useful to achieve early selection and to improve the breeding efficiency.

Key words: genomic selection, Yorkshire, admixed population, joint breeding, early selection

Table 1

Population size of reference and candidate population from three Yorkshire breeding farms in genomic joint breeding"

群体类型
Population type
性状名称
Trait name
北京六马
LM
顺鑫农业
XD
养猪中心
ZX
总计
Total number
参考群体
Reference population
达100 kg体重日龄Age at 100 kg live weight 2260 874 886 4020
达100 kg活体背膘厚Backfat adjusted to 100 kg 2260 874 886 4020
总产仔数Total number born 1687 874 854 3415
候选公猪
Candidate population
-- 979 259 641 1879

Fig. 1

Workflow of Genomic selection"

Table 2

Connectedness rating among three Yorkshire populations in Beijing"

猪场编号Farm Code BJXD1 BJXD2 BJLM1 BJLM6 BJLM4 BJLM5 BBSCB
BJXD1 1 -- -- -- -- -- --
BJXD2 0.602 1 -- -- -- -- --
BJLM1 0 0 1 -- -- -- --
BJLM6 0 0 0.649 1 -- -- --
BJLM4 0 0 0.874 0.727 1 -- --
BJLM5 0 0 0.681 0.692 0.76 1 --
BBSCB 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Fig.2

Relationship of two Yorkshire populations based on different informationa. A matrix; b. G matrix. The vertical and horizontal axis in the graph stand for individual pairs of matrix & A or G matrix values, respectively"

Table 3

Accuracy and unbiasedness of genomic prediction"

性状 Trait 选择阶段Selection stage 准确性Accuracy 无偏性Unbiasedness
达100 kg体重日龄
Age at 100 kg live weight
第一次基因组选择(公猪去势前)
First genomic selection (before castrated)
0.55 0.82
第二次基因组选择(性能测定结束)
Second genomic selection (end of performance measurement)
0.72 0.96
100 kg活体背膘厚
Backfat adjusted to 100 kg
第一次基因组选择(公猪去势前)
First genomic selection (before castrated)
0.62 0.91
第二次基因组选择(性能测定结束)
Second genomic selection (end of performance measurement)
0.84 1.00

Table 4

The theoretical accuracy of GEBV, pedigree Index and EBV in different selection stages"

选择阶段
Selection stage
选择标准
Selection criteria
达100 kg体重日龄
Age at 100 kg live weight
100 kg活体背膘厚
Backfat adjusted to 100 kg
总产仔数
Total number born
公猪去势前
Castration stage
基因组育种值Genomic estimated breeding value 0.65±0.04 0.70±0.03 0.60±0.04
系谱指数 Pedigree index 0.55±0.03 0.56±0.04 0.41±0.05
测定结束
Performance testing
基因组育种值Genomic estimated breeding value 0.78±0.02 0.84±0.02 0.60±0.05
育种值Estimated breeding value 0.70±0.04 0.72±0.04 0.41±0.05
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