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. 2015 Oct 4;5(12):2629–2637. doi: 10.1534/g3.115.019513

Table 4. Variance components and proportion of phenotypic variance (σP2) explained by additive, dominance, and imprinting effects of the real data in the Large White population.

Trait Model Variance Components Variance Explained
σe2 σL2 σAa2 σDd2 σIi2 σAa2/σP2 * σDd2/σP2 σIi2/σP2
NT MA 0.637 ± 0.032 0.333 ± 0.032 0.343 ± 0.029
MAD 0.578 ± 0.041 0.299 ± 0.037 0.094 ± 0.043 0.307 ± 0.034 0.097 ± 0.044
MADI 0.563 ± 0.040 0.300 ± 0.038 0.103 ± 0.043 0.010 ± 0.009 0.307 ± 0.035 0.105 ± 0.043 0.010 ± 0.009
BF MA 1.086 ± 0.090 0.371 ± 0.084 0.931 ± 0.093 0.390 ± 0.034
MAD 0.927 ± 0.105 0.307 ± 0.085 0.848 ± 0.105 0.320 ± 0.125 0.353 ± 0.039 0.133 ± 0.051
MADI 0.834 ± 0.115 0.302 ± 0.084 0.852 ± 0.104 0.353 ± 0.134 0.071 ± 0.041 0.353 ± 0.039 0.146 ± 0.055 0.029 ± 0.017
DG MA 1,867 ± 129 282 ± 114 682 ± 100 0.241 ± 0.033
MAD 1,715 ± 144 234 ± 108 590 ± 120 300 ± 157 0.208 ± 0.040 0.106 ± 0.055
MADI 1,659 ± 149 230 ± 108 557 ± 129 370 ± 178 34 ± 29 0.195 ± 0.043 0.130 ± 0.062 0.012 ± 0.010

σe2, residual variance; σL2, common litter variance; σAa2, total additive variance; σDd2, total dominance variance; σIi2, total imprinting variance; σAa2/σP2*, narrow-sense heritability; NT, number of teats; BF, backfat; DG, average daily gain from birth to ∼120 kg; MA, model including only additive effects; MAD, model including additive and dominance effects; MADI, model including additive, dominance, and imprinting effects.