Simulation of breeding strategies

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Table of contents

Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1.1 Dog breeding
1.2 Inherited disorders in pedigree dogs
1.3 International breeding exchanges and collaboration
2 Aims of the thesis
3 Summary of studies
3.1 Materials and methods
3.1.1 Kennel club survey (Paper I)
3.1.2 Merging pedigree databases (Paper II)
3.1.3 Estimation of genetic correlations (Paper III)
3.1.4 Simulation on breeding strategies (Paper IV)
3.2 Main findings
3.2.1 Increading concerns of stakeholders toward dog health and welfare (Paper I and II)
3.2.2 Merging pedigree databases can increase peigree knowledge and reduce inbreeding in dogs (Paper II)
3.2.3 International evaluation across countries and HD measurement scales is possible (Paper III)
3.2.4 Importing sires with high genetic quality is beneficial to improve HD status (Paper IV)
4 General discussion
4.1 Breeding objectives
4.2 Data recording
4.3 Genetic evaluation
4.4 Selection
4.5 Genetic progress
5 Conclusion and perspectives
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