Abstract
Computer-generated beef cattle data were used to investigate the effect of accounting for the yearly selection of parents on the bias and precision of sire and error variance component estimates. The adjustment for yearly selection reduced the biases of estimated sire variance components, but resulted in losses of precision of up to 25%. Key words: Beef cattle, variance component, selection
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