Table 2.

Environmental¹(below diagonal) and genomic²correlation (above diagonal) for individual milk fatty acids³

Trait	C6:0	C8:0	C10:0	C12:0	C13:0	C14:0	C15:0	C16:0	C17:0	C18:0	C14:1c9	C16:1c9	C18:1 t11	C18:1c9	C18:2n6	C18:3n3	CLA:c9t11
C6:0		0.86	0.70	0.56	0.14	0.42	0.14	−0.02	−0.10	−0.11	−0.01	0.04	−0.07	−0.24	−0.02	0.06	−0.11
C8:0	0.90		0.86	0.75	0.21	0.47	0.17	−0.02	−0.12	−0.18	−0.04	0.06	−0.16	−0.22	0.00	0.01	−0.21
C10:0	0.65	0.89		0.91	0.33	0.47	0.24	0.00	−0.20	−0.22	−0.12	0.16	−0.17	−0.28	−0.04	−0.06	−0.27
C12:0	0.52	0.80	0.97		0.28	0.48	0.25	0.01	−0.18	−0.26	−0.06	0.14	−0.14	−0.20	−0.02	−0.06	−0.23
C13:0	0.26	0.46	0.53	0.59		0.23	0.49	0.05	0.01	−0.21	−0.23	0.14	−0.18	−0.10	0.00	−0.13	−0.27
C14:0	0.49	0.65	0.81	0.84	0.41		0.35	0.08	−0.25	−0.37	0.05	0.09	−0.08	−0.21	−0.04	0.03	0.00
C15:0	0.17	0.34	0.39	0.45	0.83	0.39		0.17	−0.12	−0.27	−0.15	0.13	−0.17	−0.23	−0.19	−0.29	−0.19
C16:0	0.19	0.04	−0.02	0.00	0.08	0.06	0.07		−0.07	−0.18	0.10	0.12	−0.17	−0.26	−0.19	−0.05	−0.05
C17:0	0.06	0.04	0.00	−0.02	0.14	0.00	0.32	−0.03		0.26	−0.29	−0.18	0.09	0.16	0.13	0.09	−0.02
C18:0	−0.11	−0.16	−0.22	−0.32	−0.20	−0.36	−0.20	−0.38	0.25		−0.14	−0.37	0.09	0.14	0.13	0.15	−0.07
C14:1c9	−0.01	0.09	0.12	0.27	0.36	0.34	0.53	0.17	−0.02	−0.68		0.07	−0.05	0.06	0.08	0.08	0.19
C16:1c9	−0.20	−0.20	−0.25	−0.12	0.17	−0.13	0.24	0.46	0.00	−0.43	0.55		−0.03	−0.09	−0.12	−0.17	−0.03
C18:1 t11	−0.29	−0.34	−0.34	−0.34	−0.10	−0.30	−0.12	−0.23	0.02	0.27	−0.06	−0.01		0.11	0.10	0.09	0.23
C18:1c9	−0.59	−0.65	−0.67	−0.64	−0.36	−0.57	−0.23	−0.65	0.01	0.27	−0.01	0.00	0.27		0.26	0.14	0.24
C18:2:6	−0.11	−0.14	−0.13	−0.16	−0.19	−0.10	−0.11	−0.35	0.01	0.05	−0.03	−0.03	0.28	0.40		0.63	0.37
C18:3n3	−0.04	−0.02	0.03	0.01	−0.04	0.01	−0.02	−0.27	0.02	−0.03	−0.03	−0.03	0.08	0.23	0.62		0.33
CLA:c9t11	−0.24	−0.23	−0.24	−0.22	−0.14	−0.16	−0.09	−0.30	−0.11	−0.03	0.16	0.12	0.59	0.47	0.31	0.15

¹Psd between 0.01 and 0.05.

²Psd between 0.06 and 0.10.

³Correlations are based on bivariate analysis.