Validation with single-step SNPBLUP shows that evaluations can continue using a single mean of genotyped individuals, even with multiple breeds

Table 1 Summary statistics for body weight at 7 (BW7) and 35 days of age (BW35)

Trait	Number of crossbred progeny^a	Number of sires	Number of dams	Min	Mean ± sd	Max
BW7	10,585	156	1028	100	179 (23)	260
BW35	10,272	156	1027	922	2090 (302)	3097

^aAll crossbred progeny were phenotyped and used for variance component estimation, the 100 validation sets are selected from these animals
Standard deviations (sd) are provided in parentheses

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