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Table 10 Least-squares means for the proportion of replicates where the frequency of the lethal recessive allele increased from generations \({t}\) = 4 to 10 according to pre-selection strategy and starting frequency of the lethal recessive allele at a 0.01 \(\Delta {\text{F}}_{{{\text{true}}4 - 10}}\) in a breeding scheme with genomic prediction

From: Pre-selection against a lethal recessive allele in breeding schemes with optimum-contribution selection or truncation selection

Pre-selection strategy

Starting frequency of the lethal recessive allele

0.05

0.10

0.15

No carriers culled

0.238a

0.207a

0.152b

Male carriers culled

0c

0c

0.005c

Female carriers culled

0.002c

0.005c

0.007c

All carriers culled

0c

0c

0c

  1. Means with the same superscripted letter are not significantly different from each other (p < 0.05)