... obtained for situations 3, 4, 5, 6, and allow us to assess the effect of heritability and missing data on the number of loci needed for the BP evaluation to closely match the BLP evaluation For these ... adequate number of loci For situation 11, the correlation between the BP evaluation and the BLP evaluation was equal to 0.988 and thus FLM(3) was deemed not to have an adequate number of loci ... et al By visual inspection of the box plots for each situation, we determined the number of loci (in the FLMS) that is adequate for the BP evaluation to closely match the BLP evaluation For the...