Order Statistics of Correlated Variables and Implications in Genetic Selection Programmes. II. Response to Selection

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Information on the breeding value of an individual and of its sibs, in addition to that given by its own performance, is provided by its rank on performance in its family. When computing the expected breeding value of selected individuals in a finite population, account has to be taken both of the dependence of the mean of order statistics or selection differentials on the intra-class correlation of family members, demonstrated in a previous paper, and of this dependence of breeding value on rank within the family. If these factors are ignored, predicted selection response will be too high if there are few families. With an optimum selection index of individual and family mean performance, rank within family gives no further information.

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