Effects of single nucleotide polymorphism marker density on degree of genetic variance explained and genomic evaluation for carcass traits in Japanese Black beef cattle

Table 6 Correlations between GEBVs obtained with models 1 and 2 using a given SNP set and all available SNPs for marbling score

No. of SNPs selected	Model 1 with all 38,502 SNPs		Model 1 with each SNP set		Between binary and categorical
No. of SNPs selected	Binary^*	Categorical^*	Binary	Categorical	Between binary and categorical
100	0.46	0.47	0.96	0.96	0.87
200	0.52	0.53	0.95	0.95	0.84
500	0.72	0.74	0.97	0.97	0.89
1,000	0.83	0.84	0.96	0.97	0.88
2,000	0.90	0.92	0.96	0.97	0.88
4,000	-	0.95	-	0.97	-
6,000	-	0.96	-	0.96	-
8,000	-	0.96	-	0.96	-
10,000	-	0.96	-	0.96	-

^*Binary: treated as a binary trait; Categorical: treated as a categorical trait with 11 categories.

ISSN: 2730-6844