Upweighting rare favourable alleles increases long-term genetic gain in genomic selection programs

Table 5 Mendelian selection differential from truncation selection on GEBV

Scenario	Selection	Mendelian sampling differential
Scenario	Criteria	G ₀ -G ₁₅
n QTL = 100	RR	0.54^e
	BL	0.58^d
n QTL = 400	RR	0.63^c
	BL	0.66^b
n QTL = 2000	RR	0.65^bc
	BL	0.70^a

Different superscripts in the same column show significant differences (p < 0.05); standard errors for all the means range from 0.006 to 0.009.

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