The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) is a non-profit organization which recently assumed the service responsibilities for calculating and distributing the genetic evaluations and genomic predictions, for managing data storage, and for analyzing and distributing dairy cattle data, tasks that previously were performed by the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service – Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory (USDA-ARS-AGIL). The CDCB allied partners cooperator database is the largest in the world devoted to dairy animals with over 70 million female phenotypic records, over 1.1 million animals genotyped and over 300,000 males receiving genetic evaluations or genomic predictions.
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