Table 2.

Distribution of off-diagonal elements (OD) of the genomic relationships matrix corresponding to the training and validation individuals under different selection criteria of SNP markers (in %)

	20 K SNPs		40 K SNPs		80 K SNPs		400 K SNPs	Pedigree
	S1	R2	S	R	S	R	-	-
OD < -0.05	15.47	1.79	7.30	1.64	2.42	0.66	0.11	0
-0.05 < OD < - 0.03	11.71	8.80	11.97	8.56	9.54	6.35	3.30	0
-0.03 < OD < - 0.01	14.96	23.79	19.60	23.93	23.16	24.72	24.43	0
-0.01 < OD < 0.01	16.19	32.57	22.98	33.1	30.78	37.96	45.91	60.09
0.01 < OD < 0.03	14.85	22.75	19.98	22.85	22.46	23.39	22.72	32.55
0.03 < OD < 0.05	11.54	8.26	11.62	8.02	9.09	5.96	3.15	5.25
OD > 0.05	15.28	2.04	7.25	1.90	2.56	0.95	0.39	2.11

¹SNPs selected based on F_STscores; ²SNPs randomly selected