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1. Better lives through livestock
Feasibility of joint genomic evaluations for smallholder dairy data in
Tanzania and Ethiopia
R. Mrode , C.C. Ekine-Dzivenu, J.M. Ojango and A.M. Okeyo
Interbull Opening meeting, Montreal , Canada, 30-31 May 2022
2. 2
• African Dairy Genetic Gain (ADGG) project commenced in
2016
• Tanzania and Ethiopia, extending to Uganda, Kenya and
Rwanda in the next phase
• Tanzania
• Commenced routine data collection and process
• Routine genomic prediction initially GBLUP and ssGBLUP
• Ethiopia
• Built in a previous project by LUKE, Finland- data and pedigree
available
• Expanded data collection and implement genomic prediction on
ssGBLUP
•
Background information
3. 3
Summary data on main countries in African
Dairy Genetics Project - Tanzania
4. 4
Summary data for main countries in African
Dairy Genetics Project - Ethiopia
5. 5
• GeneSeek Genomic Profiler (GGP) Bovine 50K used
for genotyping:
• About 5600 animals genotyped in both countries
using hair samples
• After QA, 40581 SNPs remained, and these were
imputed to HD
• Just of about additional 3000 animals genotyped
this year
Genotyping Strategy
6. 6
• Considering cows at least 3 test days records with
genotypes gives us these data sets
• Tanzania: 1916 cows with 19599 test days records
• Ethiopia: 1642 cows with 16530 test days records
• With such small data sets, the questions was whether the
accuracy of prediction could be increased by combining data
from both countries
Data structure
7. 7
Small reference population
• We know that:
• Pooling data within breeds
• Effective -- Intergenomics
• Pooling data across breeds: Effectiveness depends
on
• Genetic distance between the breeds
• Density of marker chip
• Genomic prediction method – Bayesian mixture
models
8. 8
Small reference population
• Effectiveness have not been examined from cross-breeds
populations
• This study examines pooling data from Ethiopia and
Tanzania
• Issues:
• Connectedness uncertain as breeding having driven by
government policies and agents of AI companies
• Lack of pedigree in Tanzania and renumbering of foreign bulls
used in Ethiopia
• Lack of pedigree implies genetic links can only be determined
from markers : GBLUP or SNP-BLUP
• Needed for ADGG next steps as project wants to explore across
country evaluations
9. 9
• GBLUP - Fixed Regression model : Fixed ward, age nested
parity, test-year-season, fixed curves with Legendre
polynomials nested within breed classes by parity plus
random herd animal and
• Cows classified to 4 breed classes based on proportion of
exotic genes : >0.875,0.61-0.875,60-36 , and < 0.36
• Validation data set comprised of 276 and 349 cows born
after 2014 in Tanzania and Ethiopia respectively
• Accuracy was computed as correlation between YD of
validation cows and their GEBV
Within Country Analysis
10. 10
• Examine level of connectedness
• PCA analysis
• Estimate genetic correlation
• YD from the within country analysis were used
in all analyses on combined data
• Bivariate analysis
• Fitting country as fixed effect and random animal
effect
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𝜎𝑎11
2
𝜎𝑎12
𝜎21 𝜎𝑎22
2 and Var e = 𝐑 =
𝑟11 0
0 𝑟22
Analyses of combined data
11. 11
• Assume genetic correlation of unity between
both countries
• Combine all data and genotypes
• Sub-setting:
• Combining only the data and genotypes of the
top 100 to 500 Tanzanian animals most related
with Ethiopia data to the Ethiopia data and vice
versa
• Degree of relatedness computed from G matrix
Analysis of combined data
12. 12
PCA analyses and genetic correlation
Based on 3558 cows and 745 bulls
Estimate of genetic correlation from bivariate analyses was 0.12 ± 0.10
13. 13
Validation results for milk yield
Tanzania: h2= 0.11 ± 0.03, Ethiopia h2 = 0.05± 0.02
Data set Tanzania Ethiopia
Regression Correlation Regression Correlation
Within Country
Data
1.10 0.58 0.66 0.39
Combined
Data
1.17 0.58 0.67 0.40
Sub-setting
Within Country
+ 250
1.01 0.59 0.7 0.39
Within Country
+500
1.01 0.59 0.7 0.40
14. 14
• Across country genomic prediction not feasible
given the current data structure
• Study was useful in terms of helping ADGG design
the next steps
• Planned exchange of semen from top ranking bulls from ADGG
within country evaluations will be necessary
• Strategically expanding activities in Kenya as most East Africa
countries have historically bought animals from Kenya
• Design of ADGG collaborative projects with two International AI
companies planning to test some of their bulls in Africa
Conclusions
16. African Dairy Genetics Gain
Innovative use of genomics and information technology
to improve the productivity and profitability
of the small holder dairy farms in Africa
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