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

Table 4 Validation reliability (\({\varvec{\uprho}}^{2}\)) for six different scenarios

Validation set	Sire status	Number of individuals	\({\varvec{\uprho}}^{2}\)
Validation set	Sire status	Number of individuals	Base	–/25	–/50	–/100	100/100	200/200
9	Reference	1050	26	44	53	62	72	80
10a	Reference	4516	40	56	65	73	80	86
10b	Not reference	10,484	32	51	60	69	77	84

Validation animals were divided according to whether their sire was in the reference set or not

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