Management of lethal recessive alleles in beef cattle through the use of mate selection software

Table 2 Allele frequencies for the three scenarios with different numbers of loci

Scenario	Number of loci	Mean frequency	Standard deviation	Minimum frequency	Maximum frequency
A	7	0.0847	0.0151	0.0527	0.1001
B	76	0.0112	0.0125	0.0004	0.0695
C	50	0.0488	0.0307	0.0044	0.1436

Scenario A uses high-frequency loss-of-function alleles at seven essential loci, scenario B uses low-frequency loss-of-function alleles at 76 essential loci, and scenario C uses both high- and low-frequency loss-of-function alleles at 50 essential loci

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