| Table 2. Information on national evaluations providing data to the Interbull | |||||
| routine evaluation for milk somatic cells, as provided by participating countries | |||||
| proof | |||||
| Country | Breed(s)* | h2 |
model |
unit** | expression*** |
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| Australia | AYS GUE HOL JER | 0.20 | AM TD | SCC(10) | BV*** |
| Canada | AYS | 0.25 | AM TD | SCS(2) | TA |
| BSW | 0.26 | -"- | -"- | -"- | |
| GUE | 0.33 | -"- | -"- | -"- | |
| HOL | 0.29 | -"- | -"- | -"- | |
| JER | 0.26 | -"- | -"- | -"- | |
| Denmark | AYS HOL RHOL JER | 0.11 | SM MT | SCC | TA |
| Estonia | HOL | 0.12 | AM TD | SCS(2) | RBV(-) |
| Finland | AYS HOL | 0.15 | AM | SCS(e) | RBV(-) |
| France | BSW HOL RHOL | 0.15 | AM | SCS(2) | RBV(-) |
| Germany | HOL AYS | 0.20 | AM TD | SCS(2) | BV |
| Hungary | HOL | 0.15 | AM | SCC(2) | RBV |
| Israel | HOL | 0.10 | AM | SCS(2) | TA |
| Italy | HOL | 0.08 | AM TD | SCS(2) | RBV(-) |
| Netherlands | BSW HOL JER | 0.15 | AM | SCS(2) | RTA(-) |
| Sweden | AYS HOL | 0.08 | SM | SCC(10) | RBV(-) |
| Switzerland | HOL | 0.31 | AM TD | SCS(2) | BV |
| RHOL | 0.20 | AM TD | SCC(2) | BV | |
| United Kingdom | AYS GUE HOL JER | 0.11 | AM | SCC(e) | TA |
| United States | AYS BSW GUE HOL JER | 0.10 | AM | SCS(2) | TA |
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| * RHOL = Red Holstein | |||||
| ** log-base used indicated within parenthesis | |||||
| *** reversed scale, i.e. high values are desirable, indicated within parenthesis | |||||
| **** The official BVs were only multiplied by 10 for AUS instead of 1000 to fit | |||||
| the 036 file format | |||||