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Table 2.

Effects of the DGAT1 promoter VNTR allele 5 on milk production traits in German Holstein cows

	DGAT1 232A/232A only α^ab(S.E.)	all individuals α^ab(S.E.)
Milk yield [kg]	-88.0^0.068(48.0)	-93.1^0.0074(34.7)
Milk fat content [%]	0.0630^0.0002(0.0165)	0.0752^<0.0001(0.0124)
Milk fat yield [kg]	1.79^0.319(1.79)	2.44 ^0.075(1.37)
Milk protein content [%]	0.0171 ^0.032(0.0079)	0.0184^0.0016(0.0058)
Milk protein yield [kg]	-1.56^0.271(1.41)	-1.67^0.106(1.03)

^aaverage gene substitution effect of the DGAT1 promoter VNTR allele 5 compared to all other alleles, where α is defined according to Falconer and Mackay [27]; ^bp-values are given as indices.