Table 3.

Estimated heritability (diagonals), genetic (above the diagonal) and phenotypic (below the diagonal) correlations for carcass quality

	BIFYLD	BF	HCW	REA	MRB	LM7D
BIFYLD	0.44 ± 0.02	0.65 ± 0.06	0.09 ± 0.08	−0.18 ± 0.09	0.66 ± 0.06	0.04 ± 0.07
BF	0.65 ± 0.03	0.35 ± 0.04	0.42 ± 0.08	0.46 ± 0.09	0.43 ± 0.08	0.04 ± 0.07
HCW	0.16 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.03	0.27 ± 0.05	0.89 ± 0.02	−0.16 ± 0.10	0.21 ± 0.07
REA	−0.67 ± 0.03	−0.08 ± 0.03	0.55 ± 0.03	0.37 ± 0.03	−0.28 ± 0.10	0.15 ± 0.07
MRB	0.24 ± 0.04	0.42 ± 0.03	−0.25 ± 0.04	−0.21 ± 0.04	0.62 ± 0.09	−0.17 ± 0.09
LM7D	−0.06 ± 0.04	−0.04 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.04	−0.25 ± 0.04	0.31 ± 0.08