Estimación de la varianza aditiva y dominante en caracteres de cerdo medidos en población pura y cruzada usando G-gibbs

This study aims at assessing the contribution of the additive and dominance genomic variances to the phenotype expression of several purebred Piétrain and crossbred (Piétrain x Large White) pig performances. A total of 636 purebred and 720 crossbred male piglets were phenotyped for 22 traits that can be classified into growth rate and feed efficiency, carcass composition, meat quality, behavior, boar taint and puberty groups of traits. Additive and dominance variances estimated in univariate genotypic models including additive and dominance genotypic effects allowed us to retrieve the additive and dominance SNP variances. These ones were used, together with the allelic frequencies of the parental populations, to obtain additive and dominance variances in terms of genetic breeding values and dominance deviations. Some traits showed relevant amount of dominance genetic variance in both populations (i.e. backfat thickness, pH) or increased amount in crossbreds (i.e. ham cut, loin and dressing yield) suggesting that accounting for dominance in the models of these traits could lead to an increased GEBV accuracy and that using crossbred information can be beneficial to evaluate purebred candidates to selection for crossbred performance.