Skip to main content

Table 4 Reliabilities of predicted genomic EBVs for conformation and muscular traits in Belgian Blue beef cattle using different methods and SNP weighting strategies

From: Performances of Adaptive MultiBLUP, Bayesian regressions, and weighted-GBLUP approaches for genomic predictions in Belgian Blue beef cattle

Trait

GBLUP

Standardized GBLUP

AM-BLUPa

BAM-BLUPb

BSLMMc

BayesR

WPIP-GBLUPd

IW-GBLUPe

BRPV-GBLUPf

Shoulder muscling

0.57

0.56

0.58

0.58

0.59

0.57

0.58

0.56

0.55

Top muscling

0.56

0.54

0.55

0.55

0.56

0.53

0.54

0.54

0.51

Skin thickness

0.39

0.39

0.44

0.44

0.49

0.48

0.48

0.39

0.43

Height

0.49

0.50

0.52

0.52

0.53

0.54

0.53

0.51

0.54

Muscular development

0.62

0.60

0.63

0.63

0.63

0.62

0.61

0.60

0.61

Rump

0.44

0.44

0.47

0.48

0.47

0.46

0.47

0.44

0.45

Length

0.37

0.37

0.38

0.38

0.40

0.40

0.41

0.37

0.39

Chest width

0.41

0.40

0.41

0.39

0.44

0.43

0.40

0.41

0.44

Pelvis width

0.32

0.31

0.33

0.34

0.35

0.34

0.35

0.31

0.33

Rib shape

0.49

0.51

0.51

0.51

0.50

0.50

0.51

0.51

0.49

Pelvis length

0.30

0.30

0.32

0.32

0.32

0.32

0.34

0.30

0.31

Tail set

0.49

0.48

0.46

0.45

0.49

0.47

0.48

0.48

0.46

Buttock muscling (side)

0.54

0.53

0.54

0.53

0.55

0.54

0.53

0.53

0.54

Buttock muscling (rear)

0.58

0.57

0.60

0.60

0.61

0.61

0.59

0.57

0.60

Average

0.47

0.46

0.48

0.48

0.49

0.49

0.49

0.47

0.47

  1. aAdaptive MultiBLUP
  2. bBootstrap Adaptive MultiBLUP
  3. cBayesian sparse linear mixed model (BSLMM)
  4. dWindow Posterior Inclusion Probability GBLUP
  5. eiterative weighted GBLUP (IW-GBLUP)
  6. fBayesR Posterior Variance GBLUP (BRPV-GBLUP)