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. 2014 Aug 1;9(8):e103934. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103934

Table 5. Holstein and Jersey average correlations between estimated genetic effects and phenotypes for milk, fat, and protein yields, productive life (PL), daughter pregnancy rate (DPR), and somatic cell score (SCS) from training data for ten-fold cross-validation for four models.

Breed Modela Genetic effect Milk Fat Protein PL DPR SCS
Holstein MA Additive 0.601 0.574 0.557 0.367 0.352 0.389
MAD Additive 0.614 0.584 0.564 0.367 0.355 0.394
Additive+dominance 0.662 0.636 0.617 0.417 0.363 0.419
MAD2 Additive 0.615 0.586 0.564 0.366 0.355 0.395
Additive+dominance 0.665 0.636 0.622 0.431 0.370 0.424
MAD3 Additive 0.589 0.556 0.538
Additive+dominance 0.642 0.605 0.597
Jersey MA Additive 0.681 0.604 0.623 0.471 0.367 0.489
MAD Additive 0.693 0.612 0.633 0.473 0.365 0.493
Additive+dominance 0.763 0.694 0.716 0.604 0.440 0.527
MAD2 Additive 0.694 0.612 0.635 0.473 0.367 0.493
Additive+dominance 0.764 0.703 0.722 0.592 0.371 0.534
MAD3 Additive 0.630 0.540 0.542
Additive+dominance 0.743 0.660 0.672
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MA = only additive effects included; MAD = additive and dominance (values) effects included; MAD2 = additive and dominance (deviations) effects included; and MAD3 = additive and dominance effects included as well as cows with genotype probabilities derived using genotyped ancestors.