April 22, 2024 Seminar - UF/IFAS AI and Data Science Seminar Series

In 1918, Ronald Fisher developed theory to demonstrate that under the assumption of Mendelian inheritance, one could determine the genetic contribution to continuous traits. In the absence of genomic information, he used pedigree relationships between individuals to determine the covariance between their genotypic values. In most of the current genetic analyses that utilize genomic information, the pedigree relationships are replaced by genomic relationships. In this talk, Rohan Fernando presented an alternative approach to study the genomic contribution to continuous traits that does not require making many of the usual assumptions such as random mating and linkage equilibrium.