CLMAngus
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I only know a little about these tests and was wondering about the effectiveness compared to each other. I know the HD 50k uses 54,000 markers and I'm guessing Igenity uses fewer because of the price difference. However, will the HD 50k test allow the animals EPD accuracies to be considerably higher than the Igenity? The reason I ask is I have a bred Angus heifer who is currently sitting in the top .5% of the breed for WW and YW numbers and a decent +2.6 BW, but of course low accuracy. The man I purchased her from informed me that out of 5 or 6 half siblings (same donor dam), all their WW and YW numbers went up while BW went down after genetic testing. He did not know enough to compare the two AGI tests though and was unsure about accuracies. So in summation, Igenity vs. HD 50K.. Thoughts, comments, questions; flood them here.