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The document provides a book review of a book titled 'Selection, Index and Introduction to Mixed Model Methods' by L. Dale Van Vleck. The book is divided into four parts covering topics on selection index, mixed model prediction, estimation of genetic parameters, and problem sets. The review provides a high-level summary of the content covered in each part.

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Coek - Info - Selection Index and Introduction To Mixed Model Me

The document provides a book review of a book titled 'Selection, Index and Introduction to Mixed Model Methods' by L. Dale Van Vleck. The book is divided into four parts covering topics on selection index, mixed model prediction, estimation of genetic parameters, and problem sets. The review provides a high-level summary of the content covered in each part.

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92 Book Reviews /Small Ruminant Research 19 (1996) 91-92

Selection, index and introduction to mixed model part deal with selection for embedded traits, selection
methods when the traits are influenced by maternal and grand-
maternal effects, the fetal effect model or when the sire
Selection, Index and Introduction to Mixed Model of fetus has an effect, cytoplasmic effects model, selec-
Methods. L. Dale Van Vleck. CRC Press, Boca tion of traits with nonlinear economic value, and
Raton, FL, 481 pp., hard cover, price US$77, ISBN restricted selection. This section ends with index and
0-8493-8762-O. economic values in retrospect.
Part 2, on introduction to mixed model prediction, is
Scientist and post-graduate students involved in divided into 12 chapters. They cover the following top-
genetic improvement of livestock including small ics: prediction from linear models, one way classifica-
ruminants should acquire this long awaited book pub- tion model, the animal model, sire models, computing
lished in 1993. Written by a leading authority in the the inverse of the additive relationship matrix, models
field, it assembles under one cover topics essential for with animals related, sire models with some relation-
understanding and applying the genetic theory. These ships, variance of prediction errors, and finally models
topics are spread in different books and never presented for crossbreeding. This part includes sections on cre-
in such details. The book evolved from a vast experi- ating and solving equations and numerical examples
ence obtained over many years of teaching post-grad- and flow chart.
uate courses in population genetics. Part 3, dealing with estimation of genetic parameters,
The book in divided into 4 parts, the first deals with gives methods for estimating repeatability and herita-
selection index, the second with mixed model predic- bility. In addition, methods for estimating genetic, envi-
tion, the third with estimation of genetic parameters ronmental and phenotypic correlations and Mont Carlo
and the last section gives problem sets and questions. simulation are detailed. The book ends with a part pre-
Under Part 1, selection index, the author presents senting twelve problem sets and exam questions.
main statistical concepts and matrix algebra, followed The book is written and presented to allow students
by simple Mendelian models, short summation on pop- to follow the subjects in a logical order. Although the
ulation genetics, basis of genetic linkage and genetic book if full of genetic and statistic notations and equa-
values and covariances. This information gives the tions the reader will not find it difficult to follow the
principles and prepares the reader for the section on subject. The book does not have an index, but the sub-
selection index which is presented in 16 chapters. These
jects are given in detail in the table of contents, so the
deal with determining the coefficients for selection
reader can find easily what he wants.
index equations, sire evaluation applying selection
index, superiority of selected groups, selection index M.H. FAHMY
flow chart, selection with more than one trait measured, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
using records on all traits of relatives, and selection Lennoxville Research Centre
index for categorical data. Other chapters within this Lennoxville, Que., Canada, JIM 123

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