Table 1. Phenotypic correlations among growth traits.

Traits	BW7	BW14	BW21	BW28	BW35	BW42	ADG 7–14	ADG 14–21	ADG 21–28	ADG 28–35	ADG 35–42	ADG 7–21	ADG 28–42	ADG 7–42
BW7	1.00	0.78	0.81	0.68	0.48	0.31	0.15	0.62	0.33	−0.14	−0.20	0.56	−0.20	0.16
BW14	—	1.00	0.88	0.74	0.56	0.38	0.73	0.52	0.36	−0.07	−0.20	0.79	−0.15	0.26
BW21	—	—	1.00	0.86	0.63	0.43	0.52	0.86	0.43	−0.11	−0.23	0.94	−0.19	0.31
BW28	—	—	—	1.00	0.86	0.68	0.43	0.75	0.84	0.10	−0.06	0.81	0.02	0.59
BW35	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.92	0.37	0.54	0.82	0.60	0.22	0.62	0.47	0.87
BW42	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.26	0.36	0.74	0.71	0.59	0.42	0.75	0.99
ADG 7–14	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.15	0.20	0.04	−0.10	0.64	−0.03	0.25
ADG 14–21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.40	−0.12	−0.21	0.86	−0.19	0.27
ADG 21–28	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.28	0.14	0.42	0.24	0.71
ADG 28–35	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.52	−0.07	0.88	0.76
ADG 35–42	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	−0.22	0.87	0.65
ADG 7–21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	−0.16	0.34
ADG 28–42	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00	0.81
ADG 7–42	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.00

Phenotypic correlation coefficients have P-value less between 0.01 and 0.05 are in italic.

Phenotypic correlation coefficients have P-value larger than 0.05 are in bold.

All other phenotypic correlation coefficients have P-value less than 0.01.