Table 7.

Estimates of genetic and phenotypic correlations (±SE) between live weight¹ and carcass dissection traits²

	bWT	wWT	pwWT	yWT	aWT
Genetic correlations
LMY	0.52 ± 0.15	−0.03 ± 0.18	−0.21 ± 0.15	−0.18 ± 0.15	−0.21 ± 0.14
WTLL	0.08 ± 0.13	0.55 ± 0.11	0.72 ± 0.07	0.74 ± 0.07	0.69 ± 0.09
WTTOP	0.33 ± 0.12	0.74 ± 0.09	0.95 ± 0.04	0.91 ± 0.05	0.83 ± 0.07
WTRND	0.33 ± 0.12	0.65 ± 0.10	0.90 ± 0.05	0.88 ± 0.05	0.82 ± 0.07
FATLL	−0.42 ± 0.16	0.25 ± 0.18	0.65 ± 0.13	0.62 ± 0.13	0.62 ± 0.14
BONE	0.56 ± 0.11	0.85 ± 0.08	0.91 ± 0.05	0.93 ± 0.05	0.90 ± 0.07
Phenotypic correlations
LMY	0.13 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.03	−0.14 ± 0.03	−0.12 ± 0.03
WTLL	0.09 ± 0.03	0.36 ± 0.03	0.59 ± 0.02	0.62 ± 0.02
WTTOP	0.15 ± 0.03	0.41 ± 0.03	0.67 ± 0.02	0.69 ± 0.02
WTRND	0.16 ± 0.03	0.41 ± 0.02	0.67 ± 0.02	0.69 ± 0.02
FATLL	−0.05 ± 0.03	0.19 ± 0.03	0.43 ± 0.03	0.45 ± 0.03
BONE	0.28 ± 0.03	0.51 ± 0.02	0.70 ± 0.01	0.72 ± 0.02

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

²LMY = lean meat yield; WTLL = loin muscle weight; WTTOP = topside weight; WTRND = round weight; FATLL = weight of fat trim of the loin; BONE = hind leg bone weight.