Correction to: Development of a genetic evaluation for hair shedding in American Angus cattle to improve thermotolerance

Correction: Genet Sel Evol (2020) 52: 63 10.1186/s12711-020-00584-0

In Durbin et al. [1], the correlation between partial and full breeding values, ${\rho }_{p,w}^v$, was reported as a measure of prediction accuracy, which is not correct; the metric ${\rho }_{p,w}^v$ is the ratio between prediction accuracy in the partial dataset and prediction accuracy in the whole dataset. We have now calculated accuracy as follows:

$${\widehat{\mathit{acc}}}_{\mathit{LR}}=\sqrt{\frac{cov\left({\widehat{u}}_w,{\widehat{u}}_p\right)}{\left(1-\overline{F}\right){\widehat{\sigma }}_u^2}},$$

where $\mathit{cov}$ is the covariance and $\overline{F}$ is the average inbreeding coefficient of the animals in the partial dataset. The equation for ${\widehat{\mathit{acc}}}_{\mathit{LR}}$ is adapted from [2].

Across the 10 cross-validation iterations, the average accuracy was ${\widehat{\mathit{acc}}}_{\mathit{LR}}$ = 0.547 (minimum = 0.539, maximum = 0.554).