Table 1.

Summary statistics of genotyped animals and pedigree structure of the 50K and the 777K SNP panels

Parameter	Braford	Hereford	Nellore
Imputation to the 50K SNP panel
Total of genotyped animals	2,946	664	88
Sires	39	29	6
Dams	76	21	0
Offspring	2,831	614	82
Offspring with sire and/or dam genotyped (%)	22.81	32.68	12.50
Average number of offspring per sire	15.28 ± 17.38	6.76 ± 6.46	1.83 ± 0.90
Smallest and largest number of offspring per sire	1-76	1-26	1-3
Average number of offspring per dam	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00 ± 0.00	1.00 ± 0.00
Offspring with sire and/or dam unknown (%)	69.86	48.04	18.18
Imputation to the 777K SNP panel
Total of genotyped animals	71	59	88
Sires	8	3	5
Dams	0	0	0
Offspring	63	56	83
Offspring with sire and/or dam genotyped (%)	25.35	8.47	10.23
Average number of offspring per sire	2.25 ± 1.09	1.67 ± 0.94	1.80 ± 0.98
Smallest and largest number of offspring per sire	1-4	1-3	1-3
Average number of offspring per dam	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00	0.00 ± 0.00
Offspring with sire and/or dam unknown (%)	53.52	38.98	18.18