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

Table 4 Least-squares means for true genetic gain in generation \({t}\) = 2 according to linkage status 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

Linkage status	Starting frequency of the lethal recessive allele
Linkage status	0.05	0.10	0.15
Unlinked	0.518^a	0.494^b	0.490^bc
Linked	0.521^a	0.510^a	0.477^c

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

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