Phone: (860)486-1069
Email: Breno.Fragomeni@uconn.edu
Office: George White Building, Room 205
Lab: George White Building, Room 215
SAAS 121 | Animal Breeding and Genetics |
ANSC 3121 | Principles of Animal Genetics |
Toghiani, S., Hay, E., Fragomeni, B., Rekaya, R. and Roberts, A.J., 2020. Genotype by environment interaction in response to cold stress in a composite beef cattle breed. Animal-The International Journal of Animal Biosciences, pp.1-12.
Vallejo, R.L., Fragomeni, B.O., Cheng, H., Gao, G., Long, R.L., Shewbridge, K.L., Macmillan, J.R., Towner, R. and Palti, Y., 2020. Assessing Accuracy of Genomic Predictions for Resistance to Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis Virus with Progeny Testing of Selection Candidates in a Commercial Rainbow trout Breeding Population. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7, p.939.
Fragomeni, B.O., Lourenco, D.A.L., Legarra, A., VanRaden, P.M. and Misztal, I., 2019. Alternative SNP weighting for single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor evaluation of stature in US Holsteins in the presence of selected sequence variants. Journal of dairy science, 102(11), pp.10012-10019.
Fragomeni, B., Masuda, Y., Bradford, H.L., Lourenco, D.A.L. and Misztal, I., 2019. International bull evaluations by genomic BLUP with a prediction population. Journal of dairy science, 102(3), pp.2330-2335.
Cesarani, A., Pocrnic, I., Macciotta, N.P., Fragomeni, B.O., Misztal, I. and Lourenco, D.A., 2019. Bias in heritability estimates from genomic restricted maximum likelihood methods under different genotyping strategies. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 136(1), pp.40-50.
Fragomeni, B.O., D.A.L. Lourenco, S. Tsuruta, Y. Masuda, I. Aguilar, A. Legarra, T.J. Lawlor, and I. Misztal. 2015. Hot Topic: Use of genomic recursions in single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) with a large number of genotypes. J. Dairy Sci. 98:4090–4094.
Fragomeni, B.O., D.A.L. Lourenco, S. Tsuruta, Y. Masuda, I. Aguilar, I. Misztal. 2015. Use of Genomic Recursions and Algorithm for Proven and Young Animals for Single-Step Genomic BLUP Analyses – a Simulation Study. J. Anim. Breed. Genet. 132:340-345.
Fragomeni, B.O., Misztal, I., Lourenco, D.A.L., Aguilar, I., Okimoto, R., Muir, W.M. 2014. Changes in variance explained by top SNP windows over generations for three traits in broiler chicken. Frontiers in genetics, v.5:332
Masuda, Y., I. Misztal, S. Tsuruta, A. Legarra, I. Aguilar, D.A.L. Lourenco, B. Fragomeni, and T. Lawlor. 2016. Implementation of genomic recursions in single-step genomic BLUP for US Holsteins with a large number of genotyped animals. J. Dairy Sci. 99(3), pp.1968-1974.
Fragomeni, B.O., Lourenco, D.A.L., Tsuruta, S., Bradford, H.L., Gray, K.A., Huang, Y. and Misztal, I., 2016. Using single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor to enhance the mitigation of seasonal losses due to heat stress in pigs. Journal of Animal Science, 94(12), pp.5004-5013.
Fragomeni, B.O., Lourenco, D.A.L., Tsuruta, S., Andonov, S., Gray, K., Huang, Y. and Misztal, I., 2016. Modeling response to heat stress in pigs from nucleus and commercial farms in different locations in the United States. Journal of Animal Science, 94(11), pp.4789-4798.
Fragomeni, B.O., Lourenco, D.A.L., Masuda, Y., Legarra, A., Misztal. I. 2017. Incorporation of Causative Quantitative Trait Nucleotides in Single-step GBLUP. Genetics Selection Evolution
Vallejo, R.L., Liu, S., Gao, G., Fragomeni, B.O., Hernandez, A.G., Leeds, T.G., Parsons, J.E., Martin, K.E., Evenhuis, J.P., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Palti, Y. 2017. Genome-wide association studies reveal similar genetic architecture with shared and unique quantitative trait loci for bacterial cold-water disease resistance in two rainbow trout breeding populations. Frontiers in Genetics
Vallejo, R.L., Leeds, T.D., Fragomeni, B.O., Gao, G., Hernandez, A.G., Misztal, I., Welch, T.J., Wiens, G.D., Palti, Y. 2016. Evaluation of genome-enabled selection for bacterial cold water disease resistance using progeny performance data in Rainbow Trout: Insights on genotyping methods and genomic prediction models. Frontiers in Livestock Genomics.
Bradford, H.L., Fragomeni, B.O., Bertrand, J.K., Lourenco, D.A.L. and Misztal, I., 2016. Genetic evaluations for growth heat tolerance in Angus cattle. Journal of Animal Science, 94(10), pp.4143-4150
Lourenco, D.A.L., S. Tsuruta, B.O. Fragomeni, Y. Masuda, I. Aguilar, A. Legarra, J.K. Bertrand, T.S. Amen, L. Wang, D.W. Moser, and I. Misztal. 2015. Genomic evaluation using single-step genomic BLUP in American Angus. J. Anim. Sci. 93:2653–2662.