Integration of beef cattle international pedigree and genomic estimated breeding values into national evaluations, with an application to the Italian Limousin population

Table 1 Distribution of age-adjusted weaning weights (AWW), number of herds, year of birth of recoded animals, number and sex of genotyped animals, number of genotypes with associated phenotype for AWW in each country, and number of genotypes associated with publishable sires^b for direct and maternal international EBV

Country	AWW	Herds	Year of birth (min–max)	Genotypes	Genotyped males	Genotyped females	Genotypes with phenotypes^a	Genotypes associated with publishable sires for direct (maternal) EBV
CZE	13,892	172	1991–2019	1625	730	895	1207	11 (0)
DFS	96,671	9548	1980–2019	–	–	–	–	–
IRL	68,086	8218	1975–2019	11,300	3498	7802	5,237	59 (21)
DEU	117,249	866	1981–2019	742	571	171	640^c	216 (90)
CHE	35,695	247	1992–2018	3940	3740	200	3516	279 (56)
ITA	112,606	1508	1990–2019	–	–	–	–	–
Total	444,199	20,559	1975–2019	17,607	8539	9068	10,600	565 (167)

CZE = Czech Republic, DFS = Denmark, Finland and Sweden, IRL = Ireland, DEU = Germany, CHE = Switzerland, ITA = Italy
^aGenotypes with an associated phenotype in the corresponding country
^bSires that meet Interbeef publication rules
^c50 animals with phenotypes in DEU with genotypes sent from CHE (49) and IRL (1)

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