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Data from the Spanish Holstein-Friesian milk recording system were used to investigate sources of heterogeneity of phenotypic herd-period variances for milk yield and to evaluate the impact of data standardization in the genetic evaluation. Factors such as region, year of calving and management level of the herd were found to be associated to heterogeneity of herd-period variances in a correspondence...