Mi-na Park1, Tae-Jeong Choi1, Yang-Mo Koo2, Ki-Hwan Lee2, Dae-Hyeop Cha2, Ji-Hyun Son2, Seung-Hee Roh3, Chung-il Cho3, Hyo-Sun Kim4, Byong-Ho Park1
1National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Cheonan 31000, Korea
2Korea Animal Improvement Association(KAIA), Seoul, 06668, Korea
3Nationl Agricultural Cooperative Federation, Chungnam 31948, Korea
4Korea Institute for Animal Products Quality Evaluation, Sejong, 30100, Korea
Correspondence to Mi-na Park, E-mail: mina0412@korea.kr
Volume 2, Number 4, Pages 213-221, December 2018.
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genomics 2018, 2(4), 213-221. https://doi.org/10.12972/jabng.20180036
Received on 14 December, 2018, Revised on 24 December, 2018, Accepted on 24 December, 2018, Published on December 31, 2018.
Copyright © 2018 Korean Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
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This study was implemented to provide economic value of Korean native cattle (hanwoo) and investigate the genetic improvement effect of Korean native cattle in domestic farmhouses based on the genetic evaluation results of 1,926 breed bulls from K001 to KPN1359 selected from 1998 to 2017 by the National Institute of Animal Science at Rural Development Administration as well as the pedigree registration individual data of a total of 6,788,048 heads of 118,101 farmhouses from which pedigree data were collected from 1970 to 2017 under the Korean native cattle registration project by the Korea Animal Improvement Association. Pedigree Index (PI) equation is PI(Pedigree Index) = (Sire EBV×0.5) + (Sire of Dam EBV×0.25) + (Grand Sire of Dam EBV×0.125). PI genetic capability is divided into A grade (20%), B grade (25%), C grade (25%), and D grade (30%) and the PIs of individuals registered for the recent 5 years were referred to as the baseline. The results indicate that, every time and over years, each quantile rose, showing the improving genetic capability of evaluation group each time. The economic effect amount thanks to genetic improvement by year of birth ranged from KRW 101 billion to KRW 345 billion. The genetic capability of individuals born every year showed an average of about KRW 208.7 billion of improvement effect.
Hanwoo, Pedigree index, Genetic ability, Genetic improvement