Genetic tests for estimating dairy breed proportion and parentage assignment in East African crossbred cattle

Table 2 Accuracies (r²) of individual breed proportions in crossbred dairy cattle (Kenya/Uganda) for 200 SNPs selected by different methods

	Dairy	Ayrshire	Friesian	Guernsey	Holstein	Jersey	N’Dama	Nelore	Mean ± SD^a
MAF	0.870	0.486	0.312	0.375	0.483	0.165	0.397	0.874	0.442 ± 0.22
NelEU	0.898	0.120	0.140	0.056	0.198	0.034	0.484	0.944	0.282 ± 0.33
NdEU	0.934	0.373	0.263	0.265	0.437	0.141	0.538	0.867	0.412 ± 0.24
NelNdEU	0.974	0.075	0.132	0.013	0.007	0.004	0.511	0.190	0.133 ± 0.18
Random	0.845	0.405	0.243	0.276	0.414	0.133	0.373	0.874	0.388 ± 0.24
DE	0.922	0.421	0.049	0.281	0.402	0.141	0.427	0.925	0.378 ± 0.28
ISAG	0.831	0.452	0.197	0.270	0.306	0.127	0.482	0.759	0.378 ± 0.21
Mean ± SD	0.896 ± 0.05	0.333 ± 0.17	0.197 ± 0.09	0.219 ± 0.13	0.321 ± 0.17	0.107 ± 0.06	0.459 ± 0.06	0.776 ± 0.27

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