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. 2016 Nov 22;7:203. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00203

Table 2.

Genetic parameters of the traits body weight at 10 (BW10) and 13 (BW13) months post-hatching, carcass weight (CAR), fillet weight (FW), and fillet yield (FY) without (WO_GI) and with (W_GI) genomic information.

Parameters BW10, g BW13, g CAR, g FW, g FY, %
WO_GI W_GI WO_GI W_GI WO_GI W_GI WO_GI W_GI WO_GI W_GI
σa2 3399.5 4108.9 15,044 17,939 679.9 684.5 363.0 412.8 1.8 1.9
σw2 1427.4 1346.1 6344.1 6316.7 46.0 19.7 10.6 7.6 0.6 0.3
σe2 6031.5 5659.4 24,979 23,482 362.7 355.5 533.8 510.8 3.0 3.1
σp2 10,858.4 11,114.4 46,367.1 47,737.7 1088.6 1059.6 907.4 931.2 5.4 5.4
h2 0.31 0.37 0.32 0.38 0.62 0.65 0.40 0.44 0.34 0.36
Acc 0.66 0.70 0.65 0.69 0.28 0.55 0.25 0.50 0.13 0.55
r(EBV,GEBV) 0.99 0.99 0.76 0.79 0.72

σa2, additive variance; σw2, common environment variance; σe2, residual variance; σp2, phenotypic variance; h2, heritability (additive variance/phenotypic variance); Acc, average accuracy; r(EBV,GEBV), correlation between estimated breeding values (EBV) and genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV).