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Table 2 Reliability of EBV (±SE, based on 36 calculations) predicted with IBD information using different numbers of generations of pedigree data

From: The importance of identity-by-state information for the accuracy of genomic selection

Number of generations

Fat yield

Milk yield

Protein yield

1

0.5304 (± 0.0257)

0.5488 (± 0.0245)

0.5714 (± 0.0253)

2

0.5765 (± 0.0248)

0.5866 (± 0.0236)

0.6105 (± 0.0241)

3

0.5875 (± 0.0240)

0.5915 (± 0.0226)

0.6154 (± 0.0231)

4

0.5923 (± 0.0234)

0.5949 (± 0.0219)

0.6194 (± 0.0223)

5

0.5923 (± 0.0230)

0.5936 (± 0.0214)

0.6184 (± 0.0218)