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Table 7 Level bias (\({\widehat{\Delta }}_{p}\)), dispersion bias (\({\widehat{b}}_{p}\)) and accuracy of partial EBV (\({\widehat{acc}}_{p}\)) of direct and maternal EBV for the focal group, in each scenario and for each country

From: International single-step SNPBLUP beef cattle evaluations for Limousin weaning weight

Country

Direct

Maternal

PBLUPNAT

ssSNPBLUPNAT

PBLUPINT

ssSNPBLUPINT

PBLUPNAT

ssSNPBLUPNAT

PBLUPINT

ssSNPBLUPINT

\({\widehat{\Delta }}_{p}\)(GSD)

 CZE

− 0.25

− 0.23

− 0.23

− 0.22

− 0.01

− 0.03

0.00

0.01

 IRL

− 0.08

− 0.10

− 0.10

− 0.10

− 0.02

0.01

− 0.01

0.02

 DEU

− 0.19

− 0.10

− 0.21

− 0.15

− 0.06

− 0.02

− 0.05

− 0.02

 CHE

− 0.28

− 0.27

− 0.23

− 0.21

0.04

0.03

0.04

0.06

Range of SE

0.01–0.02

0.01–0.02

0.01–0.02

0.01–0.02

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

\({\widehat{b}}_{p}\)

 CZE

0.72

0.76

0.65

0.79

1.04

0.94

1.06

0.96

 IRL

0.96

0.87

1.00

0.87

0.92

0.87

0.91

0.85

 DEU

0.79

0.85

0.77

0.82

0.78

0.79

0.79

0.79

 CHE

0.80

0.79

0.80

0.82

1.06

0.98

0.99

0.93

Range of SE

0.02–0.07

0.02–0.06

0.02–0.06

0.02–0.04

0.02–0.07

0.02–0.07

0.02–0.07

0.02–0.05

\({\widehat{acc}}_{p}\)

 CZE

0.23

0.25

0.25

0.35

0.17

0.17

0.19

0.23

 IRL

0.23

0.29

0.26

0.35

0.17

0.22

0.18

0.24

 DEU

0.26

0.31

0.27

0.35

0.18

0.20

0.18

0.23

 CHE

0.34

0.38

0.35

0.40

0.22

0.27

0.24

0.29

Range of SE

0.00–0.02

0.00–0.02

0.00–0.02

0.01–0.02

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

0.00–0.01

  1. Level bias is expressed in genetic standard deviations (GSD)
  2. Focal group: animals with phenotypes and genotypes born from 2014 onwards
  3. Range of SE: minimum and maximum Standard Error across countries in each scenario (all standard errors are reported in Additional file 1: Table S8)
  4. PBLUPNAT pedigree-based BLUP national, ssSNPBLUPNAT single-step SNP-BLUP national, PBLUPINT pedigree-based BLUP international, ssSNPBLUPINT single-step SNP-BLUP international
  5. CZE Czech Republic; DFS Denmark, Finland and Sweden; IRL Ireland; DEU Germany; CHE Switzerland