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FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1209275
Keywords
genomic prediction; feature selection; environmental covariables; genotype x environment interaction; genomic selection
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This study investigates the integration of environmental information with genotypic information in genomic selection (GS) and proposes the use of feature selection methods for this purpose. Results show that the optimal incorporation of environmental covariates using feature selection significantly improves prediction accuracy in most cases, providing empirical evidence for the use of feature selection in GS to enhance prediction power.
Genomic selection (GS) is transforming plant and animal breeding, but its practical implementation for complex traits and multi-environmental trials remains challenging. To address this issue, this study investigates the integration of environmental information with genotypic information in GS. The study proposes the use of two feature selection methods (Pearson's correlation and Boruta) for the integration of environmental information. Results indicate that the simple incorporation of environmental covariates may increase or decrease prediction accuracy depending on the case. However, optimal incorporation of environmental covariates using feature selection significantly improves prediction accuracy in four out of six datasets between 14.25% and 218.71% under a leave one environment out cross validation scenario in terms of Normalized Root Mean Squared Error, but not relevant gain was observed in terms of Pearson & PRIME;s correlation. In two datasets where environmental covariates are unrelated to the response variable, feature selection is unable to enhance prediction accuracy. Therefore, the study provides empirical evidence supporting the use of feature selection to improve the prediction power of GS.
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