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. 2012 Sep 13;7(9):e45293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045293

Table 2. Estimates of additive genetic variance (Inline graphic), epistatic variance (Inline graphic), dominance variance (Inline graphic), litter variance (Inline graphic), residual variance (Inline graphic) and their standard errors, and the proportions of these variances (Inline graphic) to phenotypic variance (defined as the sum of variance components in the model).

Parameters MA MAE MAD MAED
σ2 a 2,176±241 2,029±255 2,081±246 1,942±260
σ2 aa - 529±429 - 506±429
σ2 d - - 309±175 303±175
σ2 l 604±231 523±237 542±231 465±238
σ2 e 2,707±241 2,362±371 2,557±252 2,231±376
h2 a 0.397** 0.373** 0.379** 0.357**
h2 aa - 0.098 - 0.093
h2 d - - 0.056* 0.056*
l2 0.110* 0.096* 0.099* 0.085*
*

: Significantly differ from 0 at P<0.05.

**

: Significantly differ from 0 at P<0.01