TABLE 5.

Path analysis using the correlation data for 7,605 Beefmaster 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 Beefmaster	Angus	0.384	0.339	0.385	0.436	0.381	0.434
	Brahman	0.552	0.549	0.556	0.544	0.561	0.570
	Gelbvieh	0.477	0.450	0.477	0.551	0.486	0.521
	Hereford	0.511	0.504	0.504	0.549	0.548	0.543
	Limousin	0.441	0.396	0.437	0.528	0.432	0.479
	Shorthorn	0.485	0.443	0.483	0.558	0.477	0.520
	Simmental	0.454	0.415	0.452	0.526	0.455	0.496
	Wagyu	0.367	0.361	0.376	0.435	0.356	0.377
Path coefficient	Angus	−0.008	−0.030	−0.005	0.011	−0.007	0.023
	Brahman	0.498	0.495	0.501	0.522	0.509	0.513
	Gelbvieh	0.040	0.066	0.042	0.047	0.059	0.047
	Hereford	0.347	0.345	0.342	0.380	0.379	0.363
	Limousin	0.015	0.018	0.016	0.041	0.025	0.026
	Shorthorn	0.230	0.216	0.227	0.245	0.228	0.235
	Simmental	0.028	0.024	0.027	0.020	0.033	0.029
	Wagyu	0.041	0.058	0.042	0.023	0.027	0.011
D-GBC	Angus	0.02%	0.22%	0.01%	0.03%	0.01%	0.12%
	Brahman	58.3%	58.3%	59.2%	56.5%	56.2%	57.9%
	Gelbvieh	0.37%	1.02%	0.42%	0.47%	0.76%	0.49%
	Hereford	28.3%	28.3%	27.5%	30.0%	31.3%	29.0%
	Limousin	0.05%	0.07%	0.06%	0.34%	0.13%	0.15%
	Shorthorn	12.4%	11.1%	12.2%	12.4%	11.3%	12.1%
	Simmental	0.19%	0.13%	0.17%	0.08%	0.23%	0.19%
	Wagyu	0.39%	0.80%	0.41%	0.11%	0.16%	0.03%
C-GBC	Angus	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
	Brahman	44.9%	51.3%	44.9%	42.6%	48.8%	42.3%
	Gelbvieh	3.54%	3.00%	3.54%	4.82%	27.4%	4.82%
	Hereford	33.6%	28.5%	33.6%	35.9%	31.2%	35.9%
	Limousin	0%	0.63%	0%	0%	0.95%	0%
	Shorthorn	15.5%	13.5%	15.5%	15.9%	14.1%	15.6%
	Simmental	0%	0.89%	0%	0%	1.34%	0%
	Wagyu	2.41%	2.15%	2.41%	1.11%	0.86%	1.11%

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