The aim of this study was to model, optimize,
and compare the AGG of genomic and conventional
selection scenarios relevant to 3 real small ruminant
breeding programs. A medium-sized reference
population of individual animals was assumed for the
GS schemes of each breed. Factors that might affect the
accuracy of genomic prediction were not studied, but
the deterministic formulas described by Daetwyler et al.
(2008) and Goddard (2009) were used instead.