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Table 3 Accuracy of genomic prediction of weight and scanned traits for Merino, Border Leicester (BL), Poll Dorset (PD) and White Suffolk (WS) sires based on the multi-breed reference set and GBLUP based on 50k genotypes

From: Genomic prediction from observed and imputed high-density ovine genotypes

Trait

Size

GBLUP-50k

Merino

BL

PD

WS

B-WT

10,524

0.42 (0.04)a

0.37 (0.10)

0.10 (0.07)

0.14 (0.07)

W-WT

12,415

0.38 (0.04)

0.30 (0.10)

0.05 (0.07)

0.25 (0.07)

PW-WT

10,881

0.63 (0.04)

0.37 (0.10)

0.10 (0.07)

0.15 (0.07)

H-WT

6846

0.65 (0.04)

0.21 (0.10)

0.02 (0.07)

0.20 (0.07)

Y-WT

4701

0.61 (0.04)

0.33 (0.10)

0.20 (0.07)

0.19 (0.07)

A-WT

4272

0.66 (0.04)

0.43 (0.10)

0.00 (0.07)

0.16 (0.07)

P-EMD

10,568

0.30 (0.04)

0.23 (0.11)

0.45 (0.06)

0.35 (0.06)

P-CF

9924

0.33 (0.05)

0.31 (0.10)

0.32 (0.07)

0.27 (0.07)

Y-EMD

3845

0.39 (0.04)

0.14 (0.11)

0.14 (0.07)

0.39 (0.06)

Y-CF

3841

0.40 (0.04)

0.18 (0.11)

0.24 (0.07)

0.15 (0.07)

  1. aStandard error (SE) calculated according to \(\left( {\frac{{1 - r^{2} }}{n - 2}} \right)^{0.5}\) where r is the correlation coefficient and n is the number of paired observations; for trait abbreviations see Table 1