Fig. 7
From: Optimizing genomic reference populations to improve crossbred performance
Expected benefit in accuracy of a four-way crossbred over a purebred reference population. The accuracy of a four-way crossbred reference population minus the accuracy obtained with an equally sized purebred reference population across different reference population sizes and purebred-crossbred correlations. Blue color indicates a benefit for the crossbred reference population, and red color indicates a benefit for the purebred reference population. Values for \({M}_{e}\) were set equal to the estimated values within this study (202 for purebreds and 898 for crossbreds), and the heritability was set to 0.2