North American Elk Genomic Data for Chronic Wasting Disease Prediction

North American elk data includes 904 farmed elk (357 CWD positive, 547 non-detect) from a geographically diverse cohort. The dataset, authored by Seabury and last updated in April 2026, contains 173,674 quality-filtered genetic variants from a custom Affymetrix Axiom array. It demonstrates high heritability for CWD susceptibility and provides genomic prediction accuracies.

Use Cases

• Training genomic prediction models based on 173,674 genetic variants.
• Conducting genome-wide association studies based on CWD status and genetic markers.
• Evaluating heritability of disease susceptibility based on the described high heritability.
• Developing genetic improvement programs based on genomic prediction accuracies.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 904 individual elk with confirmed CWD status.
• Contains 173,674 quality-filtered genetic variants for analysis.
• Genomic prediction accuracies reported as mean ≥ 0.791.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the farmed elk cohort.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Genetic data collected using a custom Affymetrix Axiom array.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 06:36:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America