Table 2.

Predicted breed proportions in pure breed sets

		Genomic selection				Regression
Breed	n	pRom	pCoop	pPere	pTex	pRom	pCoop	pPere	pTex
Romney	1496	0.985	0.007	0.003	0.002	0.996	−0.003	0.003	0.003
Coopworth	286	0.022	0.937	0.011	0.021	−0.030	0.979	0.013	0.035
Perendale	262	0.036	0.017	0.933	0.009	0.031	0.008	0.957	0.003
Texel	57	0.025	0.041	0.037	0.869	−0.026	0.049	0.036	0.938
Corriedale	42	0.084	0.403	0.212	0.145	−0.032	0.417	0.344	0.250
Poll Dorset	39	0.333	0.090	0.099	0.054	0.044	0.227	0.452	0.241
Suffolk	25	0.241	0.127	0.318	0.140	0.061	0.193	0.467	0.249
Finnish Landrace	12	0.123	0.167	0.217	0.134	0.003	0.160	0.504	0.294
Marshall Romney	10	0.709	0.110	0.116	0.015	0.530	0.160	0.223	0.076
Wiltshire	7	0.182	0.351	0.255	0.070	0.061	0.381	0.388	0.151
Southdown	6	0.281	0.075	0.355	0.111	0.083	0.148	0.505	0.236
Dorper White	6	0.237	0.079	0.292	0.107	0.024	0.135	0.545	0.242
Cheviot	4	−0.444	−0.033	1.389	0.046	−0.447	0.039	1.293	0.105
Finn x Texel	4	0.249	0.139	0.100	0.396	0.182	0.119	0.217	0.468
Dorset Down	4	0.234	0.122	0.343	0.104	0.075	0.151	0.510	0.232
South Suffolk	4	0.227	0.073	0.378	0.137	0.051	0.155	0.518	0.244
Primeraa	751	0.29	0.10	0.23	0.11	0.05	0.19	0.47	0.26
Highlandera	383	0.38	0.11	0.09	0.28	0.31	0.10	0.21	0.37

Mean predicted proportions, using each of the methods studied, for Romney (pRom), Coopworth (pCoop), Perendale (pPere) and Texel (pTex) in animals that are purebred (recorded as 100% of a particular breed; breeds with at least four animals available shown) and not used in the genomic selection training set. Proportions where the breed being predicted is the same as the recorded breed are shown in bold.

^aThese animals were not recorded on SIL at the time of analysis, but belonged to flocks with these breed designations.