Even for closely related breeds, within- or across-breed trained molecular breeding values have limited prediction accuracy for breeds that were not in the training set.
With one exception, the estimated genetic correlations of within-breed molecular breeding values with trait phenotype were greater than 0.28 when evaluated in the breed used for training.
The variance components estimated in this study are needed to derive multi-breed estimated breeding values (EBV) for bTB resistance in national genetic evaluations.
Even though in our derivation we assumed a two-breed composite population, the generalization to p breeds requires only redefining the appropriate vectors of breeding values by breed origin.
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For example, advances in the use of sequence data, in addition to gene expression studies, can lead to improved persistence of genomic breeding values across breeds and generations and potentially lead to greater reliabilities.
Furthermore, it assumes that higher marker densities may allow for the prediction of breeding values across breeds [ 4] In contrast, if the relationship paradigm is true, then the predictive ability based on genomic data would persist only for one or two generations ahead.
For breeds in the training set, across- and within-breed trained molecular breeding values had similar accuracies.
A larger divergence between breeds and limited LD across the two populations is expected to lead to less accurate across-breed prediction of breeding values from genomic data [ 23].
Most estimated genetic correlations for the across-breed trained molecular breeding values were moderate (> 0.30).
