Table 3.

Accuracy of genomic prediction of weight and scanned traits for Merino, Border Leicester (BL), Poll Dorset (PD) and White Suffolk (WS) sires based on the multi-breed reference set and GBLUP based on 50k genotypes

Trait	Size	GBLUP-50k
		Merino	BL	PD	WS
B-WT	10,524	0.42 (0.04)a	0.37 (0.10)	0.10 (0.07)	0.14 (0.07)
W-WT	12,415	0.38 (0.04)	0.30 (0.10)	0.05 (0.07)	0.25 (0.07)
PW-WT	10,881	0.63 (0.04)	0.37 (0.10)	0.10 (0.07)	0.15 (0.07)
H-WT	6846	0.65 (0.04)	0.21 (0.10)	0.02 (0.07)	0.20 (0.07)
Y-WT	4701	0.61 (0.04)	0.33 (0.10)	0.20 (0.07)	0.19 (0.07)
A-WT	4272	0.66 (0.04)	0.43 (0.10)	0.00 (0.07)	0.16 (0.07)
P-EMD	10,568	0.30 (0.04)	0.23 (0.11)	0.45 (0.06)	0.35 (0.06)
P-CF	9924	0.33 (0.05)	0.31 (0.10)	0.32 (0.07)	0.27 (0.07)
Y-EMD	3845	0.39 (0.04)	0.14 (0.11)	0.14 (0.07)	0.39 (0.06)
Y-CF	3841	0.40 (0.04)	0.18 (0.11)	0.24 (0.07)	0.15 (0.07)

^aStandard error (SE) calculated according to ${\left(\frac{1-r^2}{n-2}\right)}^{0.5}$ where r is the correlation coefficient and n is the number of paired observations; for trait abbreviations see Table 1