Table 3.

Estimation of heritability and genetic correlation^a

	Mean	Median	SD	Effective Sample Size	Convergence Score (p-value)b	95% HDRc
Dichotomous Deafness Trait
Genetic Variance	0.54	0.46	0.31	2291.9	0.98 (0.33)	0.13,1.11
Heritability	0.33	0.32	0.11	2209.9	1.51 (0.13)	0.14,0.54
Female-Male	-0.23	-0.22	0.29	9198.2	0.75 (0.45)	-0.79,0.33
Binary Coat Colour Trait
Genetic Variance	1.32	1.06	0.94	1206.3	1.68 (0.09)	0.20,3.14
Heritability	0.52	0.51	0.14	1380.9	1.52 (0.13)	0.26,0.79
Female-Male	-0.26	-0.25	0.35	8497.4	-0.29 (0.77)	-0.95,0.40
Correlation of Dichotomous Deafness and Binary Coat Colour
rgd	0.34	0.36	0.25	3258.1	1.55 (0.12)	-0.15,0.79
rpe	0.22	0.23	0.12	4313.9	1.40 (0.16)	-0.10,0.47
Trichotomous Deafness Trait
Genetic Variance	0.93	0.78	0.56	1408.8	0.28 (0.78)	0.23,1.94
Heritability	0.45	0.44	0.12	1749.8	0.23 (0.81)	0.23,0.68
Female-Male	-0.33	-0.33	0.31	9379.2	0.65 (0.52)	-0.93,0.29
Binary Coat Colour Trait
Genetic Variance	1.39	1.09	1.12	922.0	-0.74 (0.46)	0.18,3.37
Heritability	0.53	0.52	0.14	1052.4	-0.45 (0.65)	0.26,0.80
Female-Male	-0.26	-0.25	0.36	8427.6	1.17 (0.24)	-0.98,0.44
Correlation of Trichotomous Deafness and Binary Coat Colour
rg	0.34	0.36	0.24	2907.3	0.10 (0.92)	-0.12,0.76
rp	0.25	0.25	0.13	3036.1	-0.01 (0.99)	-0.01,0.50

^a Estimates are taken from a Gibbs sample of 10,000 values.

^b Gibbs sample convergence statistic; Geweke (1992).

^c High Density Region.

^d Genetic correlation.

^e Phenotypic correlation