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. 2012 May;13(3):207–212. doi: 10.2174/138920212800543057

Table 1.

Estimates of Genetic Architecture Obtained from Genome-Wide Association Analysis of High-Density SNP Data for Three Traits in a Layer Chicken Line Using Bayesian Variable Selection Model Bayes-C-π

Egg weight Egg production Puncture score
Pedigree-based heritability 0.74 0.39 0.29
Marker-based heritability 0.54 0.32 0.19
% SNP with zero effect (p) 99.2 99.0 95.6
% genome to capture 50% of marker-based variance 4.2 9.9 32.5
% variance of largest window 18.8 3.5 0.8