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Genetic parameters for somatic cell score according to udder infection status in Valle del Belice dairy sheep and impact of imperfect diagnosis of infection
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* Corresponding author: Valentina Riggio vriggio@unipa.it
1 Dipartimento S.En.Fi.Mi.Zo.-Sezione Produzioni Animali, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze-Parco d'Orleans, 90128 Palermo, Italy
2 Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen University, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
3 The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Roslin BioCentre, Midlothian EH25 9PS, UK
Genetics Selection Evolution 2010, 42:30 doi:10.1186/1297-9686-42-30
Published: 26 July 2010Additional files
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Effect of imperfect sensitivity and specificity on means and variances of continuous traits. The word file provided shows the principles of the calculations used to show how imperfect sensitivity and specificity can influence animals' classification and impact on estimated variance components.
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