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Effect of increasing accuracy of genomic evaluations on economic efficiency of dairy cattle breeding programmes

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Pages 379-385 | Received 01 Feb 2016, Accepted 19 May 2016, Published online: 10 Aug 2016

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Table 1. Breeding and productive parameters.

Figure 1. The general structure of genomic selection simulation.

Figure 1. The general structure of genomic selection simulation.

Table 2. Effect of the size of training set on economic efficiency, accuracy, genetic gain and cost (h2 =0.29 and genotyping cost = US$100).

Figure 2. Effect of varying the number of individuals in training set (Np), on economic efficiency (EE), accuracy of genomic selection evaluation (AGSE), continuous selections genetic gain (CSGG) and total discounted cost (TDC).

Figure 2. Effect of varying the number of individuals in training set (Np), on economic efficiency (EE), accuracy of genomic selection evaluation (AGSE), continuous selections genetic gain (CSGG) and total discounted cost (TDC).

Table 3. Effect of genotyping cost on the maximum efficiency and optimum number of training set, accuracy and genetic gain.

Table 4. Effect of heritability on the maximum economic efficiency and optimal number of training set, accuracy and genetic gain.