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Genetic Data Analysis for Plant and Animal Breeding

We wrote this book to fill the gap between textbooks of quantitative genetic theory and
software manuals that provide details on quantitative genetics analytical methods but little context or perspective on which methods may be most appropriate for particular applications. Fikret Isik-James Holland-Christian Maltecca (2017).

We are currently working on the 2nd edition of the book with new chapters and focusing on R programming for data analyses.

The book can be purchased from the publisher’s website or from other online vendors.

http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319551753, AmazonGoogle Books

Arthur Gilmour visited NC State University and gave a seminar on May 6, 2019.

Errata

Click here to see a list of errors in the book discovered with corrections.

NOTE on using the Synbreed package for some chapters

The synbreed package was archived on 02/2020. The reason for this was one of the major dependencies, the regress package is not available.  The synbreed package developers are working on an alternative. You may still be able to run synbreed on the R 3.5 version and manually download the synbreed package version 0.12-9.tar.gz from here: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/synbreed/

Data samples used in the chapters

Data

ASReml, SAS, and R codes used in the chapters

For the exercises, use the following R script to install the required packages.

Chapter01    Chapter02     Chapter03     Chapter04

Chapter05    Chapter06     Chapter07    Chapter08

Chapter09    Chapter10     Chapter11     Chapter12

At the beginning of the book (page xii), we mentioned “Installing packages from local source“. These are R packages that may not be loaded on CRAN.  You may download the compressed files for Mac (GSa_1.0.tar.gz) and for Windows (GSa_1.0.zip) to install such packages for Chapter 12 (Genomic Selection). Before doing that please run the R code on page xi first.

You may run the ASReml codes in the book using Echidna!
ASReml is not free. Students from developing countries may obtain a free version of ASReml from VSNi, the license holder of the software.
The author of ASReml software Arthur Gilmour has developed Echidna. It is free for academia and for students. You may download free software Echidna to run all the ASReml codes in the book with a few changes in the codes.