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, Amazon, Google 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
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.