Table 3. Estimates of genetic (below diagonal), phenotypic (above diagonal) correlations, heritabilities (diagonal) and their standard error of estimates among performance traits.

Traits1	BW	WNW	NURW	ENDW	ADG	UFD	ULD	UIMF	FCR
BW	0.26±0.08	0.69±0.06 2	0.47±0.03	0.25±0.04	0.42±0.04	−0.05±0.04	0.10±0.04	0.13±0.05	–
WNW	−0.00±0.74	0.07±0.07	0.19±0.03	0.31±0.02	0.22±0.08	0.26±0.02	0.16±0.02	0.25±0.06	–
NURW	−0.05±0.74	0.02±0.83	0.24±0.16	0.50±0.03	0.52±0.03	0.26±0.02	0.18±0.04	0.47±0.06	–
ENDW	0.79±0.40	0.93±0.45	−0.01±0.44	0.38±0.08	0.80±0.01	0.31±0.02	0.41±0.02	0.36±0.04	0.33±0.04
ADG	−0.68±0.70	0.06±0.67	−0.03±0.45	0.87±0.04	0.30±0.08	0.27±0.02	0.31±0.02	0.32±0.03	0.31±0.04
UFD	−0.36±0.40	0.03±0.83	−0.47±0.86	0.28±0.13	0.26±0.12	0.45±0.07	0.08±0.02	0.34±0.04	0.28±0.04
ULD	0.75±0.36	0.04±0.79	−0.48±0.49	0.37±0.12	0.31±0.13	−0.33±0.14	0.38±0.07	0.10±0.07	0.21±0.05
UIMF	0.33±0.39	0.00±0.72	0.75±0.35	0.60±0.27	0.69±0.25	0.48±0.19	−0.47±0.20	0.26±0.06	–
FCR	–	–	–	0.04±0.21	−0.19±0.20	0.39±0.17	0.05±0.21	–	0.20±0.06

¹ BW = Birth weight (kg); WNW = Weaning weigh (kg); NURW = Nursery weight (kg); ENDW = End weight (kg); ADG = Average daily gain (g/d); UFD = Ultrasound backfat depth (mm); ULD = Ultrasound loin depth (mm); UIMF = Ultrasound IMF; FCR = Feed conversion ratio.

²The significant correlations are bolded (P<0.05).