[EN] The implementation of Student t mixed models in animal breeding has been suggested as a useful statistical tool to effectively mute the impact of preferential treatment or other sources of outliers in field data. ...
Casellas, J.; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia(American Society of Animal Science, 2012-01)
[EN] The analysis of microarray gene expression data has experienced a remarkable growth in scientific research over the last few years and is helping to decipher the genetic background of several productive traits. ...
Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Varona, L.; Casellas, J.; Quintanilla, R.; Noguera, J. L.(American Society of Animal Science, 2009-01)
[EN] A Bayesian threshold model was fitted to analyze the genetic parameters for farrowing mortality at the piglet level in Large White, Landrace, and Pietrain populations. Field data were collected between 1999 and 2006. ...
Fina, M.; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Piedrafita, J.; Casellas, J.(American Society of Animal Science, 2013-07)
[EN] Although heteroskedasticity has been a main topic of interest in beef cattle during recent decades, the current availability of canalization models provided new insights for animal breeding programs. Within this ...
Casellas, J.; Ibáñez-Escriche, Noelia; Martinez-Giner, M.; Varona, L.(Blackwell Publishing, 2008-02)
[EN] This note presents the program geamm v.1.4 (Gene Expression Analysis with Mixed Models), a versatile software program to analyse appropriately normalized gene expression data by a heteroskedastic mixed model, and ...
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The Iberian pig is one of the pig breeds that has the highest meat quality. Traditionally, producers have bred one of the available varieties, exclusively, and have not used crosses between them, which has contrasted ...
Casellas, J.; Ibañez Escriche, Noelia; Varona, L.; Rosas, J.P.; Noguera, J.L.(American Society of Animal Science, 2019)
[EN] Individual-specific hidden inbreeding depression load (IDL) can be accounted for in livestock populations by appropriate best linear unbiased prediction approaches. This genetic effect has a recessive pattern and ...