Genomic predictions based on animal models using genotype imputation on a national scale in Norwegian Red cattle

Table 4 Correlations between 2013 DYD and 2007 EBV (±SE) and accuracies of EBV predicted for a set of young evaluation bulls using all records on cows born before January 1st 2007 for training

Method	kg_milk	kg_fat	kg_prot	SSC
Correlations between EBV and DYD^a
ABLUP	0.413 ± 0.066**	0.460 ± 0.065**	0.423 ± 0.067**	0.390 ± 0.071**
SSGBLUP	0.497 ± 0.073*	0.585 ± 0.058*	0.518 ± 0.063^-	0.434 ± 0.070**
G_LA1BLUP	0.319 ± 0.067**	0.272 ± 0.078**	0.370 ± 0.064**	0.284 ± 0.078**
G_LA0BLUP	0.432 ± 0.065**	0.465 ± .065**	0.440 ± 0.066**	0.377 ± 0.072**
G_LDLA1BLUP	0.522 ± 0.061^-	0.525 ± 0.064**	0.476 ± 0.065*	0.529 ± 0.053^-
G_LDLA0BLUP	0.555 ± 0.057	0.633 ± 0.047	0.543 ± 0.059	0.538 ± 0.054
Accuracies of EBV^b
ABLUP	0.430	0.486	0.445	0.422
SSGBLUP	0.518	0.618	0.546	0.469
G_LA1BLUP	0.332	0.288	0.390	0.307
G_LA0BLUP	0.450	0.492	0.464	0.408
G_LDLA1BLUP	0.543	0.555	0.501	0.572
G_LDLA0BLUP	0.578	0.669	0.572	0.581

^aA significant reduction relative to G_LDLA0BLUP is indicated by * (P < 0.05), ** (P < 0.01), and ^- (not significant)
^bAccuracy = Corr(EBV,DYD)/\(\sqrt {({\text{R}}^{ 2} \,{\text{of}}\;{\text{DYD}})}\)

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