Table 3.

Correlations between EBV from alternate core groups and EBV from the full single-step model for DanAvl Landrace

Scenario	Cor all	Cor genotyped	PCG iterations	Sparsity of $({\mathbf{G}}_{}^{-1}-{\mathbf{A}}_{22}^{-1}$)
NormalGa	1	1	306	0.0 %
Random10b	0.995	0.977	377	80.1 %
Unrelated10c	0.982	0.954	492	79.9 %
Offspring10d	0.987	0.983	330	80.4 %
OffspringRandom10e	0.991	0.984	340	80.3 %
Random30b	0.997	0.996	346	48.4 %
Random50b	0.996	0.999	312	24.7 %
Old10f	0.944	0.936	463	80.1 %
Young10g	0.897	0.937	444	79.7 %
NormalAh	0.977	0.858	321	–

Correlations were calculated for all animals (Cor all) and genotyped animals (Cor genotyped)

Number of PCG iterations and sparsity of the matrix involved in the single step formula $({\mathbf{G}}_{}^{-1}-{\mathbf{A}}_{22}^{-1}$)

All correlations were significantly different from each other (p < 0.05)

^aNormalG is the usual single-step procedure without sparse approximations

^bRandom10, Random30, Random50 are the sparse single-step, where a random subset of animals (10, 30, 50 %) were treated as core

^cUnrelated10 is 10 % animals chosen as core by minimizing the degree of relatedness between core animals

^dOffspring10 is 10 % animals chosen based on the number of genotyped offspring

^eOffspringRandom10 is, for old animals (excluding last year of birth) 10 % animals chosen based on the number of genotyped offspring, whereas for young animals (last year of birth) 10 % of the animals were chosen at random

^fOld10 is the sparse single-step, where the 10 % oldest animals were treated as core

^gYoung10 is the sparse single-step, where the 10 % youngest animals were treated as core

^hNormalA is where genotypes are ignored completely