Deniz Akdemir

Efficient Breeding by Genomic Mating

This paper introduces genomic mating as an efficient breeding method using genome-wide markers and genetic algorithms, showing it outperforms truncation selection in improving breeding values for complex traits.

Locally Epistatic Models for Genome-wide Prediction and Association by Importance Sampling

This paper introduces a hybrid modeling approach to capture additive and locally epistatic genetic effects in genome-wide prediction and association, showing improved accuracy and suggesting local epistasis contributes to missing heritability.

Likelihood Estimation with Incomplete Array Variate Observations

The paper develops methods for estimating parameters of array variate normal models from incomplete multi-way data and applies them to genotype-environment interaction analysis.