Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Arak University, Arak, 38156-8-8349, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of this research was to compare the efficiency and performance of the advanced artificial neural network method with the principal component analysis method in discriminating different horse breeds. In this study, two methods of perceptron neural network (Olden) and the principal component analysis (PCA), were used to identify a subset of SNP markers with the highest breed discrimination potential and to investigate how to assign animals to their breed groups. The results showed that the network method (Olden), is able to separate all the 37 horse breeds with a small subset of SNP markers (8,000 markers) with a same capability to all genomic markers (98% accuracy). The PCA selection method was only able to identify and separate breeds with diverse geographical originations. According to the obtained results, the PCA method is not error-free and depends upon changes and modifications to run on genomic data. The results of this study provide practical approaches in the design of economic arrays for discriminating the different horse breeds.
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