TY - BOOK AU - Resende,M.D.V.D. AU - Silva,F.F.E. AU - Resende,M.F.R. AU - Azevedo,C.F. TI - Genome-Wide Selection (GWS) KW - BLUP PROCEDURE KW - GENE-ASSISTED SELECTION (GAS) KW - GENOME-WIDE SELECTION (GWS) KW - GENOMIC SELECTION (GS) KW - QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI (QTLS) KW - SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM (SNP) N2 - There are four types of selection that use molecular markers: (1)gene-assisted selection (GAS), which is based on functional mutations and genes with known effects, or, in other words, the markers are the genes themselves; (2)marker-assisted selection using markers in linkage equilibrium with quantitative trait loci (QTLs)in the population (LE-MAS)but in linkage disequilibrium within families and crossings; (3)marker-assisted selection using markers in linkage disequilibrium at the population level (LD-MAS); and (4)genomic selection (GS)or genome-wide selection (GWS), which is based on thousands of markers in population-level linkage disequilibrium with all the QTLs for a polygenic trait. Of the four selection types, GWS tends to be the most efficient. Therefore, the present chapter will only discuss this method UR - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xvQS9TCaj81NemqY2or0UDG8QeR13Zsi/view?usp=drivesdk ER -