Inbreeding and pedigree analysis of the European red dairy cattle

Table 6 Overview of the verification process including the abbreviated organization name, the number of verified pedigree, number and percentage of unverified pedigree and the total number of pedigree submitted in the database

Organization^a	Number of verified pedigree	Number of unverified pedigree (%)	Total number of pedigree
ABAL	62,533	–	62,533
CRV	2,473,484	–	2,473,484
GENO	2,083,128	9184 (0.5)	2,092,312
LRCIA	625,174	22,993 (3.5)	648,167
VG	3,332,529	9706 (0.3)	3,342,235
VIT	323,755	29,103 (8.0)	352,858
WUELS	7062	1300 (15.0)	8362
ITBC^b	30,711	62,741 (67.0)	93,452
Overall total	8,938,376	135,027 (1.5)	9,073,403

^aABAL = Animal Breeders Association of Latvia (Latvia), CRV (the Netherlands), Geno (Norway), LRCIA = Lithuanian Red Cattle Improvement Association (Lithuania), VG = Viking Genetics (Denmark, Sweden, Finland), VIT = Vereinigte Informationssysteme Tierhaltung w.V. (Germany), WUELS = Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland) and ITBC = Interbull Centre
^bInterbull Centre is acting as the authoritative organization on behalf of animals belonging to countries not included in the study

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