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. 2017 Apr 20;49:40. doi: 10.1186/s12711-017-0315-4

Table 7.

Accuracy of genomic prediction within and across breeds from purebred or crossbred reference set

Trait Reference set Size GBV accuracy (50k) GBV accuracy (HD)
Merino BL PD WS Merino BL PD WS
B-WT Mer 3159 0.42 (0.04)a −0.14 (0.11) −0.16 (0.07) −0.015 (0.07) 0.43 (0.04) 0.08 (0.11) −0.09 (0.07) 0.09 (0.07)
BL × Mer 1187 0.37 (0.04) 0.25 (0.11) 0.06 (0.07) 0.073 (0.07) 0.38 (0.04) 0.28 (0.11) 0.06 (0.07) 0.11 (0.07)
PD × Mer (A) 1616 0.35 (0.04) −0.09 (0.11) 0.25 (0.07) 0.056 (0.07) 0.38 (0.04) 0.01 (0.11) 0.25 (0.07) 0.06 (0.07)
WS × Mer (B) 1015 0.33 (0.04) −0.04 (0.11) 0.04 (0.07) 0.152 (0.07) 0.34 (0.04) 0.01 (0.11) 0.04 (0.07) 0.20 (0.07)
(A) + (B) 2631 0.39 (0.04) −0.02 (0.11) 0.25 (0.07) 0.163 (0.07) 0.40 (0.04) −0.01 (0.11) 0.26 (0.07) 0.18 (0.07)
W-WT Mer 4586 0.36 (0.04) −0.09 (0.11) −0.01 (0.07) 0.001 (0.07) 0.37 (0.04) 0.10 (0.11) 0.02 (0.07) 0.01 (0.07)
BL × Mer 1495 0.31 (0.04) 0.33 (0.10) −0.10 (0.07) −0.047 (0.07) 0.34 (0.04) 0.33 (0.11) −0.09 (0.07) 0.06 (0.07)
PD × Mer (A) 936 0.24 (0.05) 0.10 (0.11) 0.10 (0.07) 0.045 (0.07) 0.34 (0.04) 0.10 (0.11) 0.13 (0.07) 0.14 (0.07)
WS × Mer (B) 876 0.23 (0.05) 0.03 (0.11) −0.08 (0.07) 0.218 (0.07) 0.32 (0.04) 0.04 (0.11) 0.00 (0.07) 0.33 (0.07)
(A) + (B) 1812 0.32 (0.04) 0.02 (0.11) 0.19 (0.07) 0.117 (0.07) 0.41 (0.04) 0.02 (0.11) 0.27 (0.07) 0.19 (0.07)
PW-WT Mer 3935 0.50 (0.04) −0.01 (0.11) −0.03 (0.07) 0.076 (0.07) 0.52 (0.04) −0.01 (0.11) 0.01 (0.07) 0.10 (0.07)
BL × Mer 1824 0.40 (0.04) 0.36 (0.10) −0.02 (0.07) −0.026 (0.07) 0.41 (0.04) 0.37 (0.11) 0.09 (0.07) 0.13 (0.07)
PD × Mer (A) 1849 0.39 (0.04) 0.01 (0.11) 0.28 (0.07) 0.021 (0.07) 0.46 (0.04) 0.00 (0.11) 0.31 (0.07) 0.07 (0.07)
WS × Mer (B) 1224 0.33 (0.04) 0.00 (0.11) 0.02 (0.07) 0.230 (0.07) 0.35 (0.04) 0.06 (0.11) 0.08 (0.07) 0.28 (0.07)
(A) + (B) 3073 0.47 (0.04) −0.01 (0.11) 0.27 (0.07) 0.251 (0.07) 0.54 (0.04) −0.01 (0.11) 0.31 (0.07) 0.28 (0.07)
P-EMD Mer 3449 0.337 (0.04) −0.059 (0.11) 0.084 (0.07) 0.074 (0.07) 0.337 (0.04) −0.062 (0.11) 0.084 (0.07) 0.101 (0.07)
BL × Mer 1602 0.241 (0.04) 0.217 (0.11) 0.124 (0.07) 0.028 (0.07) 0.244 (0.04) 0.232 (0.11) 0.144 (0.07) 0.102 (0.07)
PD × Mer (A) 1809 0.270 (0.04) 0.004 (0.11) 0.150 (0.07) 0.037 (0.07) 0.284 (0.04) 0.002 (0.11) 0.174 (0.07) 0.042 (0.07)
WS × Mer (B) 1249 0.190 (0.04) 0.000 (0.11) 0.044 (0.07) 0.134 (0.07) 0.201 (0.04) 0.000 (0.11) 0.046 (0.07) 0.141 (0.07)
(A) + (B) 2544 0.250 (0.04) 0.001 (0.11) 0.160 (0.07) 0.152 (0.07) 0.254 (0.04) 0.002 (0.11) 0.181 (0.07) 0.157 (0.07)
PW-CF Mer 2685 0.314 (0.04) 0.076 (0.11) 0.073 (0.07) −0.099 (0.07) 0.318 (0.04) 0.091 (0.11) 0.024 (0.07) −0.005 (0.07)
BL × Mer 1186 0.136 (0.05) 0.240 (0.11) 0.044 (0.07) 0.044 (0.07) 0.139 (0.04) 0.253 (0.11) 0.064 (0.07) 0.065 (0.07)
PD × Mer (A) 1295 0.134 (0.05) 0.121 (0.11) 0.296 (0.07) 0.069 (0.07) 0.138 (0.04) 0.126 (0.11) 0.322 (0.07) 0.080 (0.07)
WS × Mer (B) 1250 0.130 (0.05) 0.000 (0.11) 0.001 (0.07) 0.074 (0.07) 0.133 (0.04) 0.000 (0.11) 0.003 (0.07) 0.116 (0.07)
(A) + (B) 2540 0.170 (0.05) 0.021 (0.11) 0.286 (0.07) 0.076 (0.07) 0.184 (0.04) 0.024 (0.11) 0.296 (0.07) 0.121 (0.07)

BL Border Leicester, PD Poll Dorset, WS White Suffolk

aStandard error (SE) calculated according to: 1-r2n-20.5 where r is the correlation coefficient and n is the number of paired observations; for trait abbreviations see Table 1