Systematic genotyping of groups of cows to improve genomic estimated breeding values of selection candidates

Table 1 Assignment of animals to the reference or validation set in the different scenarios

Validation animals were further divided according to the status of the corresponding sire (member of the reference set or not), resulting in three validation groups. Sires of validation animals in generations 9 and 10a were part of the reference set and sires of validation animals in generation 10b were not part of the reference set. First, daughters of the sires of generation 8 were added to the reference set (step 1) and then daughters of the sires of generation 7 were also added (step 2)

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