Short communication: Principal components and factor analytic models for test-day milk yield in Brazilian Holstein cattle
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2012-04-01
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Bignardi, A. B. [UNESP]
El Faro, L.
Rosa, G. J. M.
Cardoso, V. L.
Machado, P. F.
Albuquerque, Lucia Galvão de [UNESP]
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Elsevier B.V.
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A total of 46,089 individual monthly test-day (TD) milk yields (10 test-days), from 7,331 complete first lactations of Holstein cattle were analyzed. A standard multivariate analysis (MV), reduced rank analyses fitting the first 2, 3, and 4 genetic principal components (PC2, PC3, PC4), and analyses that fitted a factor analytic structure considering 2, 3, and 4 factors (FAS2, FAS3, FAS4), were carried out. The models included the random animal genetic effect and fixed effects of the contemporary groups (herd-year-month of test-day), age of cow (linear and quadratic effects), and days in milk (linear effect). The residual covariance matrix was assumed to have full rank. Moreover, 2 random regression models were applied. Variance components were estimated by restricted maximum likelihood method. The heritability estimates ranged from 0.11 to 0.24. The genetic correlation estimates between TD obtained with the PC2 model were higher than those obtained with the MV model, especially on adjacent test-days at the end of lactation close to unity. The results indicate that for the data considered in this study, only 2 principal components are required to summarize the bulk of genetic variation among the 10 traits.
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factor analytic model, Multivariate analysis, Reduced rank model
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Journal of Dairy Science. New York: Elsevier B.V., v. 95, n. 4, p. 2157-2164, 2012.