Table 3. Heritability (diagonal), phenotypic correlation (below the diagonal) and genetic correlation (above the diagonal) between dry matter intake, average daily gain, metabolic body weight, growth and carcass traits.

Trait	DMI	ADG	BW0.75	WS	HH	CC	LEA	BF	RF
DMI	0.45 ± 0.05	0.83 ± 0.06	0.82 ± 0.05	0.8 ± 0.06	0.61 ± 0.07	0.79 ± 0.07	0.48 ± 0.10	0.29 ± 0.13	0.39 ± 0.11
ADG	0.56	0.41 ± 0.06	0.73 ± 0.08	0.84 ± 0.05	0.62 ± 0.08	0.80 ± 0.08	0.41 ± 0.11	0.15 ± 0.13	0.24 ± 0.12
BW0.75	0.65	0.42	0.53 ± 0.06	0.84 ± 0.05	0.80 ± 0.04	0.90 ± 0.03	0.63 ± 0.07	0.14 ± 0.12	0.30 ± 0.11
WS	0.60	0.61	0.83	0.40 ± 0.03	0.75 ± 0.02	0.87 ± 0.02	0.48 ± 0.06	-0.02 ± 0.10	0.11 ± 0.10
HH	0.45	0.36	0.69	0.67	0.61 ± 0.02	0.64 ± 0.04	0.19 ± 0.07	-0.15 ± 0.09	-0.03 ± 0.09
CC	0.55	0.60	0.75	0.73	0.57	0.31 ± 0.03	0.38 ± 0.08	0.17 ± 0.11	0.29 ± 0.10
LEA	0.44	0.36	0.59	0.49	0.31	0.45	0.44 ± 0.05	0.09 ± 0.10	0.18 ± 0.10
BF	0.23	0.15	0.29	0.22	0.65	0.28	0.20	0.30 ± 0.04	0.79 ± 0.05
RF	0.25	0.21	0.29	0.26	0.07	0.30	0.25	0.61	0.38 ± 0.05

DMI, dry matter intake; ADG, average daily gain; BW^0.75, metabolic body weight; WS, weight at selection; HH, hip height of males and females at selection; CC, chest circumference of males and females at selection; LEA, loin-eye area; BF, backfat thickness; RF, rump fat thickness.