TABLE 2.

Path analysis using the correlation data for 7,969 Brangus animals with eight reference breeds and three SNP panels (1K, 5K, and 10K).

Statistic	Breed	GGP 30K/GGP 40K			GGP 50K
		1K	5K	10K	1K	5K	10K
Correlation with Brangus	Angus	0.699	0.671	0.692	0.714	0.689	0.711
	Brahman	0.442	0.451	0.475	0.444	0.456	0.481
	Gelbvieh	0.635	0.606	0.627	0.647	0.622	0.645
	Hereford	0.362	0.316	0.310	0.374	0.325	0.321
	Limousin	0.532	0.512	0.541	0.546	0.527	0.557
	Shorthorn	0.507	0.452	0.478	0.520	0.468	0.495
	Simmental	0.610	0.585	0.611	0.624	0.602	0.628
	Wagyu	0.278	0.311	0.344	0.288	0.318	0.353
Path coefficient	Angus	0.527	0.510	0.539	0.538	0.520	0.552
	Brahman	0.402	0.396	0.404	0.403	0.401	0.407
	Gelbvieh	0.107	0.086	0.071	0.096	0.085	0.073
	Hereford	0.019	0.031	0.008	0.023	0.032	0.009
	Limousin	0.030	0.034	0.030	0.037	0.037	0.031
	Shorthorn	0.087	0.060	0.051	0.091	0.068	0.058
	Simmental	−0.007	0.003	0.007	−0.005	0.006	0.007
	Wagyu	−0.029	0.008	0.003	−0.023	0.007	0.003
D-GBC	Angus	60.2%	60.4%	62.9%	61.4%	60.7%	63.4%
	Brahman	35.2%	36.5%	35.3%	34.4%	36.0%	34.6%
	Gelbvieh	2.48%	1.71%	1.09%	1.94%	1.63%	1.09%
	Hereford	0.07%	0.22%	0.01%	0.11%	0.23%	0.02%
	Limousin	0.20%	0.28%	0.19%	0.29%	0.31%	0.20%
	Shorthorn	1.64%	0.82%	0.56%	1.77%	1.03%	0.71%
	Simmental	0.01%	0.00%	0.01%	0.00%	0.01%	0.01%
	Wagyu	0.18%	0.02%	0.00%	0.12%	0.01%	0.00%
C-GBC	Angus	56.9%	57.1%	56.7%	57.6%	57.2%	57.6%
	Brahman	30.2%	32.2%	30.2%	29.4%	31.5%	29.4%
	Gelbvieh	6.67%	5.13%	6.66%	5.87%	5.11%	5.87%
	Hereford	0.59%	0.92%	0.59%	0.75%	0.95%	0.75%
	Limousin	1.41%	1.60%	1.41%	1.75%	1.75%	1.75%
	Shorthorn	4.34%	2.63%	4.34%	4.63%	3.08%	4.63%
	Simmental	0%	0.16%	0%	0%	0.30%	0%
	Wagyu	0%	0.22%	0%	0%	0.20%	0%

The Brangus animals were genotyped on either GGP 30K/GGP 40K bovine SNP chip or GGP 50K bovine SNP chip, respectively.