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Table 1 Heritability (h2) and average reliability (\({\text{r}}_{\text{DYD}}^{2}\)) of daughter yield deviations for the 3244 bulls

From: Simultaneous fitting of genomic-BLUP and Bayes-C components in a genomic prediction model

Trait

h 2

\(r_{DYD}^{2}\)

Somatic cell count (SCC)

0.136

0.858

Fat yield (Fkg)

0.213

0.906

Milk yield (Mkg)

0.277

0.927

Protein yield (Pkg)

0.235

0.915

  1. \(r_{DYD}^{2} = d_{e} /\left( {d_{e} + K} \right),\) where d e is the effective number of daughters and K = (4 − h 2)/h 2
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Genetics Selection Evolution

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