This webinar focuses on genomic selection in R using the rrBLUP package. Through this webinar you will learn to generate a training population, impute missing markers, estimate marker effects and determine the correlation accuracy.
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Amy Jacobson is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota advised by Dr. Rex Bernardo. Amy received her bachelor’s degree in plant science from Cornell University in 2011. She is currently researching improving accuracy of genomic selection in maize biparental populations.
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Development of this page was supported in part by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Solanaceae Coordinated Agricultural Project, agreement 2009-85606-05673, administered by Michigan State University. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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