CoP Appendix IX - GMACE Publication Rules

In order to be included in the routine GMACE distribution files, a GMACE record needs to fulfill some conditions related to both inclusion in GMACE calculation process and distribution process.

1-GMACE calculation process

• Bull's age <= 7 years

• No distributed conventional proof
• Full pedigree in the Interbull pedigree data base
• Parents with conventional proof in corresponding conventional evaluation or with GMACE evaluation (e.g. young genomic sire of young genomic bull)
• Only bulls with proofs based on parent average +genomic information and transition bulls (those bulls continue getting GMACE until they have enough daughters to qualify for an official MACE proof).

2-GMACE distribution process (Routine run)

• The bull should have at least one GEBV record included in GMACE having a publication status=Y (official in the country of evaluation) and a bull status =10 ( A.I. bull)
• The bull should be authorized to be published by the bull controlling country
• Conflict bulls (claimed by more than one country) will be published if the conflict is not resolved by the countries
• Bulls that are not claimed by any bull controlling country (are not in the 734 file of any country) are considered as publishable if all the other conditions are fulfilled

• Bulls that were correctly previously published in GMACE are considered as publishable. The national GE center will have to use the "Exceptions" process (see the diagram below) to This means that a national GE centre will need to write, explain and justify to Interbull centre why a bull that was previously published should not be published anymore.

Clarifications regarding the 734 file sent by countries.

• This file is not mandatory
• All bulls (bulls reported in the previous file and new bulls) need to be included in the 734 file sent by countries.
• If a country choose to send only new bulls:
  • There will be no effect on the GMACE publication status of old bulls (reported in the previous file and not in the current one) if they were published before
  • However old bulls will not be included in the 734_file_ALL distributed to countries at each run. This file is constructed from all the 734 files sent by countries at each run and start from scratch at each run.
• If a country choose not to send at all any 734 file, new bulls that were not previously published will be published (if all the other conditions above are fulfilled) if no other country include them in its own 734 file with a GMACE publication status =N