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Deregressed estimated breeding values were available for 328 genotyped boars.

Simulated data have advantages in that the underlying causal mutations and simulated breeding values are available for direct validation.

Once the true breeding values are available, the accuracy of genomic prediction can be expressed as the correlation between the true and the predicted breeding values.

This is very unlikely because it implies that a sire is bred from a dam for which neither pedigree nor breeding values are available.

Knowing heritability and genetic correlation between the capacities for a stallion to produce foals easy to birth and mares easy to foal, breeding values are now available.

Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) have been identified and a first DNA test for sheep is now commercially available (Catapult Genetics NZ) but breeding values are in most instances still based on faecal egg counts.

Simulation shows that the resulting estimated breeding values are unbiased predictors of true breeding values.

Consider how breeding values are calculated for the different approaches.

Because true breeding values were not available, correlation coefficients were weighted by the average PTA reliability of the medoid [ 9, 27], as reported in Table  1.

Estimated breeding values (eBVs) were available for DAG3, DAG8, FEC1, FEC2 and AFEC from analyses performed by Sheep improvement Limited (SIL), the New Zealand sheep genetic evaluation system [ 43].

Second, 95% of the available females and 75% of the available males with the highest true breeding values were selected for breeding.