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. 2019 Jun 10;20:51. doi: 10.1186/s12863-019-0752-x

Table 2.

Heritability (on diagonal, SE in parentheses), genetic correlations (below diagonal, SE in parentheses) and phenotypic correlations (above diagonal) for each ejaculate (ejaculate volume (VE), progressive sperm motility (SM), sperm concentration (SC), number of sperm (NSP), and number of progressive motile sperm (NMSP)

traits VE SM SC NSP NMSP
VE 0.15 (0.03) 0.26 0.09 0.75 0.71
SM 0.36 (0.21) 0.12 (0.03) 0.35 0.39 0.56
SC 0.02 (0.12) 0.18 (0.16) 0.22 (0.04) 0.66 0.63
NSP 0.70 (0.25) 0.25 (0.17) 0.71 (0.26) 0.16 (0.03) 0.96
NMSP 0.74 (0.28) 0.25 (0.19) 0.65 (0.26) 0.99 (0.39) 0.12 (0.03)