Table 1.

Number of validation animals without close relatives in the reference population

	Scenario (number of reference animals / number of validation animals)
	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.