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Table 2 Estimates of additive genetic variance from different models using various marker sets for fertility, health and longevity

From: Impact of rare and low-frequency sequence variants on reliability of genomic prediction in dairy cattle

Marker sets/index traits

Average number of variants

Fertility

Health

Longevity

Variance components

 

50 k

RLFV

50 k

RLFV

50 k

RLFV

50 k

54,323

144.5

–

146.6

–

142.2

–

50 k + all genic RLFV

1,650,799

113.2

27.0

119.2

25.1

95.2

42.9

50 k + RLFV in genes with significant association

191,414

139.2

11.0

142.9

6.0

115.9

26.5

50 k + RLFV with medium-to-high impact annotations

577,732

117.7

22.2

120.3

23.5

97.7

39.8

50 k + RLFV with high impact annotations

81,717

131.6

17.0

123.2

21.4

105.8

31.9