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Table 4 Mean of days in milk (DIM) (and standard deviation in parenthesis) and mean and standard deviation of raw and corrected dry matter intake (DMI) and residual feed intake per country and dataset

From: Sharing of either phenotypes or genetic variants can increase the accuracy of genomic prediction of feed efficiency

Dataset

Raw DMI

DMIa

RFIa

DIM

Mean

SD

Number

Mean

SD

Number

Mean

SD

AUSh

 

8.29

1.34

824

 − 0.01

0.84

824

 − 0.02

0.42

AUSc

108 (35)

22.93

3.80

584

 − 0.02

2.10

584

0.00

1.29

USA

81 (67)

21.52

4.47

673

0.09

1.97

671

0.01

1.46

CAN

121 (77)

20.54

5.47

755

0.04

3.20

473

 − 0.07

3.04

DNK

140 (83)

21.93

3.57

439

0.34

1.87

425

0.12

1.17

CHE

120 (79)

21.48

3.62

95

0.10

2.88

63

0.09

1.20

GBR

143 (83)

16.70

5.25

564

 − 0.31

2.85

211

 − 0.14

2.26

NLD

na

na

na

na

na

na

597

0.00

0.97

EU

na

na

na

1098

 − 0.02

2.52

1296

0.02

1.33

NA

na

na

na

1428

0.07

2.69

1144

 − 0.02

2.25

OVE

na

na

na

2526

0.03

2.62

2440

0.00

1.82

  1. Acronyms as described in Tables 1 and 2
  2. na: not applicable
  3. aCorrected phenotypes for dry matter intake (DMI) and residual feed intake (RFI) in GBLUP