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15.11.2016
NMBU' s Professor Theodorus Meuwissen has received the 2016 John J. Carty Award from the US National Academy of Sciences along with his collaborator Michael Goddard for their pioneering work on genomic selection. According to the award announcement, this work united quantitative genetic theory with genomics technology, revolutionizing the genetic improvement of livestock and also having
...implications for fields from crop improvement to human medicine. At the time when the key article (1) was published in 2001, agricultural science had reached the stage where a limited number of DNA markers were available per genome for breeding. These markers could be used to identify QTLs (quantitative trait loci) by calculating the probability that a given SNP was associated with a specific phenotype. Because only strong correlations would be registered as reliable QTLs using these statistics, only a few markers turned out to be useful for breeding selection.
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