Table 4

Expected accuracies of GEBV from GBLUP with a combined (Holstein and Jersey) reference population, with re-scaling of the additive genetic variance to account for inbreeding since divergence of the two breeds

Trait

Validation set

Protein

Fat

Milk

Prot%

Fat%

Holstein

0.67

0.65

0.68

0.71

0.72

Jersey

0.57

0.56

0.59

0.62

0.63

Hayes et al. Genetics Selection Evolution 2009 41:51   doi:10.1186/1297-9686-41-51