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Table 8 Parameters for internal animals with a Walloon reliability less than 0.50 and sired by internally used sires

Traits	N¹	Parameters²	Genetic evaluation
Traits	N¹	Parameters²	EVAL_W	EVAL_BLNN	EVAL_BLRE	EVAL_BLR	EVAL_BL
Milk yield	1948	r	0.944	0.995	0.995	0.999	1.000
		RE_tot	245.1	1655.2	1655.2	245.1	245.1
		REL	0.32 (0.10)	0.57 (0.06)	0.56 (0.06)	0.43 (0.07)	0.42 (0.07)
Fat yield	1694	r	0.923	0.994	0.994	0.999	1.000
		RE_tot	102.6	1254.9	1254.9	102.6	102.6
		REL	0.31 (0.09)	0.56 (0.06)	0.56 (0.06)	0.42 (0.08)	0.42 (0.08)
Protein yield	1786	r	0.938	0.995	0.995	0.999	1.000
		RE_tot	148.4	1243.5	1243.5	148.4	148.4
		REL	0.31 (0.09)	0.56 (0.06)	0.56 (0.06)	0.42 (0.08)	0.42 (0.08)

¹N = Number of internal animals; ²r = rank correlation between EVAL_BL and EVAL_W, EVAL_BLNN, EVAL_BLRE or EVAL_BLR; RE_tot = Total amount of record equivalents; REL = average reliability (SD in parentheses).

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