Table 5.

Estimates of genetic and phenotypic correlations (±SE) between live weight¹ and meat nutritional value traits²

	bWT	wWT	pwWT	yWT	aWT
Genetic correlations
IRON	−0.19 ± 0.15	−0.38 ± 0.16	−0.14 ± 0.15	−0.23 ± 0.14	−0.18 ± 0.14
ZINC	−0.14 ± 0.17	−0.08 ± 0.19	−0.06 ± 0.16	−0.15 ± 0.16	−0.02 ± 0.15
DHA	0.13 ± 0.21	0.31 ± 0.23	0.09 ± 0.21	−0.09 ± 0.20	−0.03 ± 0.19
EPA + DHA	0.10 ± 0.45	0.13 ± 0.49	−0.31 ± 0.47	−0.55 ± 0.55	−0.42 ± 0.46
LA	0.39 ± 0.21	−0.06 ± 0.23	−0.12 ± 0.21	−0.35 ± 0.21	−0.33 ± 0.19
ARA	0.56 ± 0.49	0.07 ± 0.39	0.17 ± 0.37	−0.21 ± 0.36	−0.17 ± 0.33
LA + ARA	0.45 ± 0.24	−0.04 ± 0.25	−0.08 ± 0.23	−0.35 ± 0.24	−0.33 ± 0.21
Phenotypic correlations
IRON	−0.06 ± 0.03	−0.05 ± 0.03	0.11 ± 0.03	0.03 ± 0.03
ZINC	−0.06 ± 0.03	−0.04 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.04
DHA	−0.01 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.03	−0.02 ± 0.03
EPA + DHA	−0.03 ± 0.03	−0.02 ± 0.03	−0.03 ± 0.03	−0.09 ± 0.03
LA	0.02 ± 0.029	−0.03 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.03
ARA	−0.02 ± 0.03	−0.06 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.03	−0.03 ± 0.03
LA + ARA	0.01 ± 0.03	−0.04 ± 0.03	0.07 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.03

¹bWT = birth weight; wWT = weaning weight; pwWT = post weaning weight; yWT = yearling weight; aWT = adult weight.

²IRON = iron content; ZINC = zinc content; DHA = docosahexaeonic acid content; EPA = eicosapentaeonic acid content; EPA + DHA = sum of EPA and DHA; LA = linoleic acid content; ARA = arachidonic acid content; LA + ARA = sum of LA and ARA.