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Table 4 Accuracy {expressed as correlations between true breeding values (TBV) and genomic estimated breeding values [GEBV; r(TBV, GEBV)]}, and slopes [b(TBV, GEBV)] of regression of TBV on GEBV for genomic prediction with simulated QTL genotypes included for training and validation

From: Multi-population genomic prediction using a multi-task Bayesian learning model

  

Ayrshire

Holstein

No. of QTL

ρ

Single-task

Pooling

Multi-task

Single-task

Pooling

Multi-task

r(TBV, GEBV)

20

0.2

0.76 ± 0.04

0.64 ± 0.04

0.92 ± 0.01

0.96 ± 0.01

0.93 ± 0.01

0.97 ± 0.01

20

0.8

0.71 ± 0.05

0.88 ± 0.02

0.93 ± 0.01

0.97 ± 0.01

0.97 ± 0.01

0.97 ± 0.01

200

0.2

0.57 ± 0.03

0.53 ± 0.03

0.60 ± 0.04

0.77 ± 0.01

0.76 ± 0.01

0.78 ± 0.01

200

0.8

0.54 ± 0.04

0.65 ± 0.02

0.61 ± 0.04

0.76 ± 0.02

0.78 ± 0.02

0.77 ± 0.01

b(TBV, GEBV)

20

0.2

1.01 ± 0.06

0.83 ± 0.08

0.99 ± 0.03

1.00 ± 0.01

1.00 ± 0.02

1.00 ± 0.01

20

0.8

1.04 ± 0.08

0.89 ± 0.06

0.97 ± 0.03

0.98 ± 0.01

1.01 ± 0.02

0.99 ± 0.01

200

0.2

1.23 ± 0.10

0.89 ± 0.06

1.16 ± 0.08

1.00 ± 0.03

1.03 ± 0.03

1.01 ± 0.03

200

0.8

1.10 ± 0.09

1.06 ± 0.06

1.12 ± 0.09

0.98 ± 0.03

0.97 ± 0.03

0.98 ± 0.02