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Table 2 Correlations between corrected phenotypic values and genomic predictions for the birds in the test sets assessed by cross-validation

From: Accuracy of genomic prediction for growth and carcass traits in Chinese triple-yellow chickens

Trait1

BLUP

GBLUP

BayesLASSO

BayesMix4

Family sample

    

BW6

-0.078a

0.448b

0.449b

0.463b

BW12

0.014a

0.449b

0.452b

0.468b

EP

-0.009a

0.252b

0.255b

0.239b

BMP

0.092a

0.251a

0.251a

0.254a

LMP

0.152a

0.188a

0.183a

0.176a

Mean

0.034

0.318

0.318

0.320

Random sample

    

BW6

0.194a

0.525b

0.525b

0.536c

BW12

0.107a

0.487b

0.487b

0.506c

EP

0.313a

0.395c

0.394c

0.390b

BMP

0.237a

0.313b

0.312b

0.333c

LMP

0.326a

0.430c

0.430c

0.428b

Mean

0.236

0.430

0.430

0.439

  1. 1BW6 = body weight at 6th weeks; BW12 = body weight at 12th weeks; EP = eviscerating percentage; BMP = breast muscle percentage; LMP = leg muscle percentage.
  2. a-cWithin a row, estimates without a common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05), according to paired t test.