APPENDIX I

Estimated sire standard deviation (diagonal) and genetic correlations (above diagonal) considered in the Interbull routine evaluation for direct longevity of August  2009; sire standard deviation estimates are determined on a de-standardized transmitting ability scale.

AUS=Australia, BEL=Belgium, CAN=Canada, CHE=Switzerland, DEU=Germany, DNK=Denmark, DNR=Danish Red & White (Holstein evaluation), ESP=Spain, FIN=Finland, FRA=France, GBR=United Kingdom, HUN= Hungary, IRL=Ireland, ISR=Israel, ITA=Italy, NZL=New Zealand, SWE=Sweden,
NLD=Netherlands, USA=United States
 

BrownSwiss - Direct Longevity
	can	che	deu	nld	nzl	usa	ita	fra
can	0.040	.85	.89	.75	.34	.94	.83	.80
che		0.096	.80	.66	.37	.75	.56	.80
deu			0.169	.52	.33	.75	.83	.83
nld				0.173	.39	.84	.55	.68
nzl					1.611	.44	.30	.32
usa						3.091	.76	.73
ita							0.097	.74
fra								0.460

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Guernsey - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	nzl	usa	gbr
aus	2.838	.63	.77	.63	.67
can		0.040	.41	.90	.94
nzl			1.616	.34	.57
usa				3.088	.86
gbr					0.356

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Holstein - Direct Longevity
	aus	bel	can	che	deu	dnk	dnr	esp	fin	fra	gbr	irl	isr	ita	nld	nzl	swe	usa	hun	chr
aus	1.881	.67	.68	.80	.59	.67	.54	.35	.53	.65	.72	.54	.59	.40	.74	.65	.60	.69	.31	.68
bel		0.156	.69	.72	.72	.65	.41	.42	.45	.61	.82	.73	.40	.43	.59	.56	.65	.74	.42	.69
can			0.038	.87	.91	.81	.74	.81	.71	.72	.88	.90	.48	.84	.63	.52	.78	.92	.69	.78
che				0.085	.88	.81	.77	.66	.74	.73	.85	.77	.59	.63	.78	.54	.68	.83	.45	.92
deu					0.200	.82	.79	.79	.77	.64	.85	.88	.44	.74	.67	.44	.76	.86	.62	.77
dnk						0.074	.78	.73	.84	.75	.83	.70	.44	.69	.67	.44	.73	.85	.56	.79
dnr							0.071	.65	.88	.71	.72	.68	.61	.68	.67	.29	.64	.70	.54	.74
esp								0.181	.75	.56	.72	.74	.37	.83	.46	.43	.54	.77	.68	.61
fin									0.161	.63	.77	.72	.54	.58	.58	.49	.70	.71	.44	.64
fra										0.496	.66	.54	.62	.66	.64	.38	.60	.70	.48	.80
gbr											0.290	.87	.58	.70	.65	.57	.75	.87	.62	.77
irl												2.247	.35	.70	.50	.63	.79	.80	.60	.64
isr													10.549	.39	.68	.34	.35	.59	.38	.52
ita														0.180	.42	.30	.55	.73	.74	.64
nld															0.154	.43	.56	.77	.46	.68
nzl																1.071	.44	.55	.30	.36
swe																	0.053	.74	.36	.53
usa																		2.510	.73	.72
hun																			0.070	.40
chr																				0.093

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Jersey - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	dnk	nld	nzl	usa	gbr
aus	2.255	.33	.33	.36	.58	.65	.34
can		0.031	.64	.70	.37	.76	.79
dnk			0.069	.66	.40	.56	.93
nld				0.159	.50	.73	.64
nzl					0.975	.61	.44
usa						2.735	.68
gbr							0.278

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Red - Direct Longevity
	aus	can	deu	dnk	fin	nzl	swe	usa	gbr
aus	2.467	.60	.81	.65	.43	.58	.84	.52	.35
can		0.037	.67	.67	.66	.32	.76	.91	.82
deu			0.176	.89	.72	.47	.82	.70	.51
dnk				0.068	.83	.42	.72	.72	.60
fin					0.153	.49	.58	.74	.71
nzl						1.157	.44	.33	.33
swe							0.047	.81	.39
usa								2.941	.66
gbr									0.316

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Simmental - Direct Longevity
	frm	nld
frm	0.481	.52
nld		0.166