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Table 1 Numbers of reference and validation animals per breed and sex

From: On the use of whole-genome sequence data for across-breed genomic prediction and fine-scale mapping of QTL

 

Data

Number of reference animals

Number of validation animals

Holstein bulls

DYD

3124a

826b

Holstein cows

YD

22,868

0

Jersey bulls

DYD

787a

221b

Jersey cows

YD

6144

0

Australian Red cows

YD

0

1579

Total

 

32,923

2626

  1. DYD: daughter yield deviation; YD: yield deviation
  2. aBorn before 2005 and bborn after 2005