Table 4.

Spearman rank correlations of international estimated breeding values (IEBVs) between scenarios for different group of animals, and number of top 100 sires selected in common between scenarios

Scenario 1		COU 2	All 3		CB 4		Sires with publishable IEBVs5		Young sires 6		Top 100 sires
			Direct	Maternal	Direct	Maternal	Direct	Maternal	Direct	Maternal	Direct	Maternal
REF	CUR	CZE	0.998	0.986	0.994	0.980	0.997	0.990	0.998	0.979	94	89
		DFS	0.998	0.980	0.993	0.988	0.997	0.990	0.999	0.968	92	84
		ESP	0.999	0.994	0.998	0.992	0.999	0.997	1.000	0.989	93	93
		GBR	0.999	0.984	0.997	0.985	0.999	0.992	0.999	0.973	93	88
		IRL	0.999	0.988	0.998	0.984	0.999	0.994	1.000	0.980	95	91
		FRA	1.000	0.992	0.999	0.996	1.000	0.997	1.000	0.985	99	94
		DEU	0.997	0.982	0.993	0.986	0.996	0.991	0.998	0.970	93	87
		CHE	0.997	0.995	0.993	0.994	0.995	0.997	0.997	0.992	91	91
REF	NONE	CZE	0.991	0.971	0.977	0.968	0.984	0.982	0.993	0.967	78	77
		DFS	0.991	0.976	0.978	0.978	0.986	0.987	0.994	0.962	82	80
		ESP	0.990	0.965	0.980	0.951	0.984	0.969	0.994	0.963	80	71
		GBR	0.994	0.973	0.987	0.973	0.989	0.987	0.996	0.956	85	84
		IRL	0.995	0.975	0.990	0.966	0.992	0.985	0.996	0.968	81	84
		FRA	0.998	0.917	0.998	0.952	0.999	0.971	0.999	0.831	97	78
		DEU	0.983	0.971	0.961	0.965	0.976	0.983	0.991	0.956	75	79
		CHE	0.982	0.972	0.966	0.967	0.971	0.977	0.986	0.975	73	75

¹Scenario: NONE = both r_{dm_WC} and r_{dm_BC} set to 0, CUR = r_{dm_WC} used in the evaluation, and r_{dm_BC} set to 0, REF = both r_{dm_WC} and r_{dm_BC} used in the evaluation. With r_{dm_WC} = within-country direct-maternal genetic correlations, and r_{dm_BC} = between-country direct-maternal genetic correlations.

²COU, Country: CZE, Czech Republic, DFS, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, ESP, Spain, GBR, Great Britain, IRL, Ireland, FRA, France, DEU, Germany, CHE, Switzerland.

³All, All animals included in the international evaluation (i.e., 3,431,742).

⁴CB, Common bulls (1,436).

⁵Sires with publishable IEBVs: 32,208 direct IEBVs and 13,016 maternal IEBVs obtained under scenario REF.

⁶Young sires: 1,561 sires obtained under scenario REF.