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Table 8 Least-squares means for the proportion of replicates where the frequency of the lethal recessive allele increased from generations \({t}\) = 1 to 2 according to pre-selection strategy and selection strategy 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

Selection strategy

POCS

GOCS

Truncation selection

No carriers culled

0.390a

0.332b

0.337b

Male carriers culled

0.027d

0.040d

0.028d

Female carriers culled

0.093c

0.092c

0.040d

All carriers culled

0d

0d

0d

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