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. 2017 Mar 29;49:35. doi: 10.1186/s12711-017-0311-8

Table 1.

Estimates of genomic heritabilities for teat number using 41,108 autosomal SNPs on 2936 Duroc boars

Model All SNPs as random effects 85 significant SNPs removed 85 significant SNPs as fixed effects
Additive and dominance effects h^α2=0.365±0.030 h^α2=0.346±0.030
-chi2=-5.20%
h^α2=0.260±0.030
-chi2=-28.77%
h^δ2=0.035±0.019 h^δ2=0.036±0.020
-chi2=+2.86%
h^δ2=0.037±0.022
-chi2=+5.71%
h^t2=0.400±0.034 h^t2=0.382±0.034
-chi2=-4.50%
h^t2=0.297±0.036
-chi2=-25.75%
Additive effects only h^α2=0.368±0.030 h^α2=0.350±0.030
-chi2=-4.89%
h^α2=0.263±0.030
-chi2=-28.53%

hα2 = narrow-sense heritability. hδ2 = dominance heritability. ht2 = broad-sense heritability = hα2+hδ2. -chi2 = decrease in heritability relative to the heritability estimated by using all SNPs fitted as random effects