Table 4.
Expected accuracies of GEBV from GBLUP with a combined (Holstein and Jersey) reference population, with re-scaling of the additive genetic variance to account for inbreeding since divergence of the two breeds
Trait | |||||
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Validation set | Protein | Fat | Milk | Prot% | Fat% |
Holstein | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.68 | 0.71 | 0.72 |
Jersey | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.62 | 0.63 |