... which is a function of the number of relatives in training, the degree of relationship withtraining individuals [2] and heritability. Thus, a loweraccuracy with decreasing training size [10] could ... obtained an accuracy for the offspring of training individuals of 0.85 and 0.75 based on 2,200 and1,000 training individuals, respectively. Solberg et al.[13] and Habier et al. [2,27], in contrast, ... relationships in partic ular, are not meaningfulenough for problems in plant and animal breeding.Additional file 1: Accuracy of GEBVs in case of linkage equilibriumand unrelated training individuals....