Exploitation of genomic technologies for sustainable intensification of dairy goats

该项目通过使用新的遗传和基因组技术来提高牛奶生产效率和供应连续性，解决了山羊奶业可持续集约化生产面临的主要挑战。该项目将识别出容易在反季节繁殖的母系和子系，并对该性状的优点进行基因组预测。英国和国外更广泛的商业山羊产业将利用这种能力，通过对这种能力的基因组预测，以及通过为英国山羊开发低密度（LD）、低成本定制的单核苷酸多态性（SNP）阵列来实现一系列其他关键性状。这允许从LD插入到更高密度的SNP阵列，并且更大比例的外群核进行基因分型，从而对更广泛的英国山羊种群和其他地区产生更大的吸收和影响。

This project addresses key challenges facing the sustainable intensification of dairy goat milk production by using new genetic and genomic technologies to improve the efficiency of milk production and continuity of supply.This project will identify sires with daughters that readily breed out of season and generate genomic predictions of merit for this trait. The exploitation of such ability by the wider commercial goat industry in the UK and abroad will be enabled via genomic predictions for this and a range of other key traits via the development of a low density (LD), lower cost customised single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array for UK goats. This allows the imputation from LD to the higher density SNP arrays and a greater proportion of the outer herd nucleus to be genotyped, thereby creating greater uptake and impact to a the wider UK goat population and beyond.