TABLE 6.

Path analysis using the correlation data for 7,605 Beefmaster animals with three ancestral breeds as the reference and three SNP panels.

Statistics		GGP30K/GGP 40K			GGP 50K
		1K	5K	10K	1K	5K	10K
Correlation with Beefmaster	Brahman	0.552	0.549	0.556	0.544	0.561	0.570
	Hereford	0.511	0.504	0.504	0.549	0.548	0.543
	Shorthorn	0.485	0.443	0.483	0.558	0.477	0.520
Path coefficient	Brahman	0.513	0.514	0.517	0.536	0.522	0.526
	Hereford	0.375	0.381	0.371	0.420	0.417	0.398
	Shorthorn	0.275	0.263	0.276	0.310	0.282	0.298
D-GBC	Brahman	54.9%	55.2%	55.6%	51.3%	51.9%	52.8%
	Hereford	29.3%	30.3%	28.6%	31.5%	33.0%	30.2%
	Shorthorn	15.7%	14.5%	15.8%	17.2%	15.2%	16.9%
C-GBC	Brahman	50.1%	51.3%	51.0%	46.0%	47.6%	48.0%
	Hereford	31.1%	31.5%	29.8%	33.4%	34.1%	31.4%
	Shorthorn	18.8%	17.3%	19.2%	20.6%	18.3%	20.6%

The Beefmaster animals were genotyped on either GGP 30K/GGP 40K bovine SNP chip or GGP 50K bovine SNP chip, respectively. Correlations of allele frequencies were 0.059 (1K), 0.045 (5K) and 0.035 (10K) between Brahman and Hereford, 0.052 (1K), 0.069 (5K) and 0.100 (10K) between Brahman and Shorthorn, and 0.460 (1K), 0.381 (5K) and 0.428 (10K) between Hereford and Shorthorn.