Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:Based on the adjusted entry means of all genotypes, we applied Ridge Regression Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (RR-BLUP) [43] and BayesC π [33, 44] considering additive and dominance effects.
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