Table 1.

Phenotypic means (with standard deviations, SD) and genetic parameters (with standard errors, SE) in the combined-population dataset

FAs	Mean	SD	${\sigma }_a^2$	SE	h2	SE
Saturated FAsa
C8:0	1.18	0.38	0.008	0.04	0.27	0.03
C10:0	2.80	0.58	0.07	0.09	0.39	0.04
C12:0	3.58	0.76	0.09	0.11	0.33	0.04
C14:0	11.0	1.26	0.21	0.17	0.25	0.03
C15:0	1.09	0.18	0.004	0.02	0.23	0.04
C16:0	30.20	3.53	1.80	0.48	0.34	0.04
C18:0	10.30	1.99	0.52	0.29	0.25	0.04
Unsaturated FAsa
C14:1	1.19	0.35	0.03	0.05	0.47	0.04
C16:1	1.49	0.35	0.05	0.07	0.46	0.04
C18:1c9	21.90	4.37	1.38	0.46	0.27	0.04
C18:2n6	1.89	1.19	0.01	0.05	0.18	0.03
C18:3n3	0.48	0.13	0.005	0.01	0.19	0.03
CLA	0.53	0.23	0.004	0.02	0.21	0.04
Desaturation indexesb
C14 index	9.71	2.37	1.57	0.37	0.53	0.03
C16 index	4.70	0.97	0.32	0.19	0.38	0.04
C18 index	67.80	3.98	3.95	0.73	0.31	0.04

^aExpressed in % wt/wt

^bDesaturation indexes calculated as unsaturated/(unsaturated + saturated) × 100