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. 2018 May 12;96(7):2567–2578. doi: 10.1093/jas/sky172

Table 3.

Estimates of variance components, direct (hd2±SE), maternal (hm2±SE), and total heritability (ht2), and common litter effect (C2±SE) for individual weights of Yorkshire pigs (York) and Landrace pigs (Land) using bivariate analysis and model 4

Dataset1 Breed Trait2 Variance component3 hd2±SE hm2±SE ht24 C2±SE
σd2 σm2 σc2 σe2
CORE York BW 0.017 0.022 0.019 0.059 0.15 ± 0.03 0.18 ± 0.02 0.17 0.17 ± 0.01
WW 0.046 0.13 0.18 0.69 0.04  ± 0.01 0.13 ± 0.02 0.06 0.17 ± 0.01
PW 30.76 4.90 7.23 51.73 0.33 ± 0.03 0.05 ± 0.01 0.25 0.08 ± 0.01
MERGED York BW 0.0094 0.033 0.019 0.047 0.10  ± 0.01 0.22 ± 0.01 0.15 0.20 ± 0.004
WW 0.033 0.12 0.18 0.63 0.03 ± 0.01 0.13 ± 0.02 0.06 0.18 ± 0.01
PW 36.58 5.70 12.98 56.84 0.34 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.004 0.31 0.12 ± 0.003
CORE Land BW 0.0044 0.024 0.015 0.046 0.05 ± 0.01 0.27 ± 0.02 0.13 0.17 ± 0.01
WW 0.0046 0.098 0.15 0.54 0.01 ± 0.01 0.12 ± 0.01 0.02 0.19 ± 0.01
PW 23.37 5.91 7.38 51.48 0.27 ± 0.03 0.07 ± 0.01 0.27 0.08 ± 0.01
MERGED Land BW 0.0064 0.027 0.020 0.043 0.07 ± 0.01 0.28 ± 0.01 0.11 0.21 ± 0.004
WW 0.0071 0.099 0.16 0.53 0.01 ± 0.01 0.12 ± 0.01 0.02 0.20 ± 0.01
PW 30.65 6.70 11.39 52.33 0.30 ± 0.01 0.07 ± 0.01 0.27 0.11 ± 0.003

1CORE = all animals have BW, WW, and PW records; MERGED = combines the CORE dataset with animals that have BW and PW recorded, but not individual WW.

2BW= birth weight; WW= weaning weight; PW= probe weight.

3 σd2= direct additive genetic variance; σm2= maternal genetic variance; σc2= common litter variance; σe2= residual variance.

4SE were not available.