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Table 3 Accuracy obtained with different strategies

From: Sequence- vs. chip-assisted genomic selection: accurate biological information is advised

Method

Number of SNPs*

Number of QTN

  

20

100

Pedigree BLUP

-

0.38 (0.09)

0.43 (0.09)

RAD

11,000

0.28 (0.10)

0.27 (0.09)

Medium-density array

7,500

0.45 (0.09)

0.45 (0.09)

High-density array

17,000

0.47 (0.08)

0.47 (0.08)

Sequence

335,000

0.49 (0.10)

0.49 (0.08)

Causal SNPs

20/100

0.98 (0.01)

0.95 (0.02)

  1. Accuracy is measured as the correlation between true and predicted breeding values of the last generation individuals in cross-validation and is the average of 100 replicates; *number of SNPs used for prediction; for Sequence, all SNPs are used; for causal SNPs, only 20 or 100 QTN are used.