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SNP Evaluation Systems (continued)
Limitations of SNP Selection
The main limitation of SNP selection is having good phenotypic information from a large number of animals in the population of interest (Hayes et al. 2009). For example, accuracy improved markedly when the number of progeny-tested American Holstein bulls increased from 1,151 to 3,576 (VanRaden et al. 2009). Very few populations of cattle have thousands of …