Table 1.
Scenario (number of reference animals / number of validation animals) |
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---|---|---|---|---|
50 / 747 | 100 / 697 | 200 / 597 | 400 / 397 | |
no relatives with r ≥ 0.50 |
621 |
562 |
453 |
316 |
no relatives with r ≥ 0.25 |
135 |
62 |
30 |
15 |
no relatives with r ≥ 0.125 |
16 |
4 |
- |
- |
no relatives with r ≥ 0.0625 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
The number of validation animals without close relatives in the reference population is presented for four different classes of relationship (r) and four scenarios with an increasing number of reference animals. Since most animals in our study were born between 1997 and 2004, the number of validation animals without close relatives in the reference population was very high across all scenarios.