Table 1. Descriptive statistics of the 22 fatty acid traits in Chinese Holstein.

Traits	No. cows	Mean	Standard deviation	Variable coefficienta	Maximum	Minimum
C8:0	784	0.578	0.223	38.501	1.200	0.128
C10:0	784	2.193	0.428	19.538	3.286	0.967
C12:0	784	2.865	0.543	18.943	4.513	1.194
C14:0	784	9.892	1.285	12.988	13.546	5.808
C14:1	784	0.835	0.221	26.429	1.598	0.339
C16:0	784	32.665	1.998	6.116	39.995	25.182
C16:1	784	1.656	0.376	22.710	3.735	0.158
C18:0	784	12.169	1.761	14.472	17.367	7.401
C18:1n9c	784	28.571	2.814	9.849	38.289	18.873
C18:2n6c	784	4.002	0.462	11.548	5.895	2.264
C18:3n6	784	0.098	0.064	65.520	0.457	0.003
C18:3n3	784	0.417	0.065	15.681	0.627	0.008
CLA	784	0.404	0.094	23.276	0.797	0.050
C20:0	784	0.163	0.047	28.981	0.376	0.006
C20:5n3	784	0.041	0.021	51.366	0.180	0.012
C22:0	784	0.054	0.027	49.351	0.289	0.003
C14 index	784	7.763	1.677	21.596	14.624	3.460
C16 index	784	4.831	1.071	22.179	9.118	0.420
C18 index	784	70.144	3.335	4.754	80.298	55.891
SFA	784	62.134	3.066	4.934	72.604	47.670
UFA	784	36.481	3.044	8.345	46.678	26.156
SFA/UFA	784	1.722	0.225	13.092	2.776	1.113

Note:

^aVariable coefficient calculated as the ratio of standard deviation (SD) to the mean multiplied by 100.