EQUIGENOM Operational Group: Development of a cost-effective MD chip for gene identification, disease diagnosis, detection of economically important traits, and genomic selection in PRE.

Innovative application of an economical medium-density (MD) chip for the PRE that simultaneously allows the control of parentage, the early diagnosis of hereditary diseases (including those particular and specific to the PRE breed, such as cat neck among others) and chromosomal diseases, the detection of molecular markers related to traits of economic importance and the development of genomic selection in the PRE, which will be complemented by the development of a robust and easy-to-use digital tool, which integrates genetic information (from the improvement program) and/or genomic information (generated by the chip) of each animal, allowing its use in a quick and easy way to interpret for the farmer, centralizing all the information of the same animal in a single accessible digital file that helps them make improvement and crossbreeding decisions that allow higher and faster genetic progress and the detection and control of hereditary diseases, avoiding considerable economic expense as well as anticipating future problems and economic losses; with the consequent economic benefit of the farm.