Table 2. Heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations in bone traits¹.

	Femur BMD	Femur BMC	Femur weight	Tibia breaking strength	Tibia breaking work
Femur BMD	0.35 ± 0.05	0.86 ± 0.01	0.52 ± 0.02	0.72 ± 0.01	0.52 ± 0.02
Femur BMC	0.83 ± 0.03	0.46 ± 0.04	0.76 ± 0.01	0.49 ± 0.02	0.68 ± 0.02
Femur weight	0.48 ± 0.07	0.86 ± 0.03	0.62 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.07	0.64 ± 0.09
Tibia breaking strength	0.89 ± 0.04	0.80 ± 0.05	0.58 ± 0.07	0.26 ± 0.04	0.72 ± 0.01
Tibia breaking work	0.76 ± 0.09	0.82 ± 0.08	0.69 ± 0.09	0.92 ± 0.05	0.14 ± 0.04

Corresponding SD behind the mean heritabilities on diagonal (bold), phenotypic correlations above diagonal, genetic correlations below diagonal.