Christian Maltecca

Research.com Recognitions

• 2020 - J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding, American Dairy Science Association

Overview

Best Publications

• Genetic Data Analysis for Plant and Animal Breeding

  Christian Maltecca;James Holland;Fikret Isik

  252
  Citations

• Invited review: Inbreeding in the genomics era: Inbreeding, inbreeding depression, and management of genomic variability.

  Jeremy T. Howard;Jennie E. Pryce;Christine Baes;Christian Maltecca

  243
  Citations

• Gut microbiome composition differences among breeds impact feed efficiency in swine

  Matteo Bergamaschi;Francesco Tiezzi;Jeremy Howard;Yi Jian Huang

  234
  Citations

• Effect of genomic selection on rate of inbreeding and coancestry and effective population size of Holstein and Jersey cattle populations

  Bayode O. Makanjuola;Filippo Miglior;Emhimad A. Abdalla;Christian Maltecca

  173
  Citations

• Genomic selection for producer-recorded health event data in US dairy cattle.

  K.L. Parker Gaddis;J.B. Cole;J.S. Clay;C. Maltecca

  159
  Citations

• Calf birth weight, gestation length, calving ease, and neonatal calf mortality in Holstein, Jersey, and crossbred cows in a pasture system.

  K. Dhakal;C. Maltecca;J.P. Cassady;G. Baloche

  149
  Citations

• Host contributes to longitudinal diversity of fecal microbiota in swine selected for lean growth

  Duc Lu;Francesco Tiezzi;Constantino Schillebeeckx;Nathan P. McNulty

  138
  Citations

• GWAS and fine-mapping of livability and six disease traits in Holstein cattle.

  Ellen Freebern;Daniel J. A. Santos;Lingzhao Fang;Lingzhao Fang;Jicai Jiang

  127
  Citations

• Effects of the osteopontin gene variants on milk production traits in dairy cattle.

  S. Leonard;H. Khatib;V. Schutzkus;Y.M. Chang

  116
  Citations

• Assessment of alternative genotyping strategies to maximize imputation accuracy at minimal cost

  Yijian Huang;John M Hickey;Matthew A Cleveland;Christian Maltecca

  113
  Citations

• A Genome-Wide Association Study for Clinical Mastitis in First Parity US Holstein Cows Using Single-Step Approach and Genomic Matrix Re-Weighting Procedure

  Francesco Tiezzi;Kristen L. Parker-Gaddis;John B. Cole;John S. Clay

  111
  Citations

• Quantitative trait loci affecting milk yield and protein percentage in a three-country Brown Swiss population.

  A. Bagnato;F. Schiavini;A. Rossoni;C. Maltecca;C. Maltecca

  99
  Citations

• Genetic parameters for fertility of dairy heifers and cows at different parities and relationships with production traits in first lactation

  F. Tiezzi;C. Maltecca;A. Cecchinato;M. Penasa

  84
  Citations

• Breeding and Genetics Symposium: networks and pathways to guide genomic selection.

  W. M. Snelling;R. A. Cushman;J. W. Keele;C. Maltecca

  84
  Citations

• Effect of genetic architecture on the prediction accuracy of quantitative traits in samples of unrelated individuals.

  Fabio Morgante;Wen Huang;Christian Maltecca;Trudy F. C. Mackay

  83
  Citations

• Effect of recent and ancient inbreeding on production and fertility traits in Canadian Holsteins

  Bayode O. Makanjuola;Christian Maltecca;Christian Maltecca;Filippo Miglior;Flavio S. Schenkel

  80
  Citations

• Predicting Growth and Carcass Traits in Swine Using Microbiome Data and Machine Learning Algorithms

  Christian Maltecca;Duc Lu;Constantino Schillebeeckx;Nathan P. McNulty

  80
  Citations

• SNP markers trace familial linkages in a cloned population of Pinus taeda—prospects for genomic selection

  Jaime Zapata-Valenzuela;Fikret Isik;Christian Maltecca;Jill Wegrzyn

  79
  Citations

• Heritability and genome-wide association of swine gut microbiome features with growth and fatness parameters.

  Matteo Bergamaschi;Christian Maltecca;Constantino Schillebeeckx;Nathan P. McNulty

  76
  Citations

• Symposium review: The genomic architecture of inbreeding: How homozygosity affects health and performance

  Christine F. Baes;Christine F. Baes;Bayode O. Makanjuola;Filippo Miglior;Gabriele Marras

  74
  Citations

• Feed intake, average daily gain, feed efficiency, and real-time ultrasound traits in Duroc pigs: I. Genetic parameter estimation and accuracy of genomic prediction.

  S. Jiao;C. Maltecca;K. A. Gray;J. P. Cassady

  73
  Citations

• Genotype by environment (climate) interaction improves genomic prediction for production traits in US Holstein cattle

  F. Tiezzi;G. de los Campos;K.L. Parker Gaddis;C. Maltecca

  72
  Citations

• The fibroblast growth factor 2 gene is associated with embryonic mortality in cattle

  H. Khatib;C. Maltecca;R. L. Monson;V. Schutzkus

  71
  Citations

• Whole-genome scan for quantitative trait loci associated with birth weight, gestation length and passive immune transfer in a Holstein × Jersey crossbred population

  C. Maltecca;K. A. Weigel;H. Khatib;M. Cowan

  69
  Citations

• Accounting for trait architecture in genomic predictions of US Holstein cattle using a weighted realized relationship matrix

  Francesco Tiezzi;Christian Maltecca

  68
  Citations

• Incidence validation and relationship analysis of producer-recorded health event data from on-farm computer systems in the United States

  K.L. Parker Gaddis;J.B. Cole;J.S. Clay;C. Maltecca

  67
  Citations

• Differences in hair coat shedding, and effects on calf weaning weight and BCS among Angus dams

  K.A. Gray;T. Smith;C. Maltecca;P. Overton

  62
  Citations

• Invited review: Reproductive and genomic technologies to optimize breeding strategies for genetic progress in dairy cattle

  Allison Fleming;Emhimad A. Abdalla;Christian Maltecca;Christine F. Baes

  52
  Citations