. 2019 Jul 23;51:41. doi: 10.1186/s12711-019-0482-6

Table 2.

Means and standard deviations (SD) for additive ( $σ_{a}^{2}$ ) and residual variance ( $σ_{e}^{2}$ ) and h² estimates for growth and reproductive traits in Brahman cattle obtained across the 6 single-trait and 10 two-trait analyses in which each trait was included

Trait^a	Two-trait			Single male + female joined
Trait^a	$σ_{a}^{2}$	$σ_{e}^{2}$	h ²	$σ_{a}^{2}$	$σ_{e}^{2}$	h ²
ACL	7733.9 ± 1346.6	5599.7 ± 998.4	0.58 ± 0.08	–	–	–
AGE26	4911.9 ± 712.5	2672.9 ± 467.4	0.65 ± 0.07	–	–	–
DC1	12.4 ± 20.8	436.3 ± 28.1	0.03 ± 0.05	–	–	–
DC5	58.8 ± 20.4	146.6 ± 18.7	0.29 ± 0.09	–	–	–
IGF1b	9251.2 ± 1644.2	8795.1 ± 1177.9	0.51 ± 0.08	3088.2 ± 475.9	7133.8 ± 403.1	0.30 ± 0.04
IGF1c	1121.4 ± 235.5	1444.7 ± 190.2	0.44 ± 0.08
IN4	2.2 ± 0.6	0.9 ± 0.3	0.71 ± 0.08	–	–	–
EMAb	10.4 ± 2.3	16.9 ± 1.8	0.38 ± 0.08	11.4 ± 1.9	26.3 ± 1.6	0.30 ± 0.06
EMAc	17.7 ± 4.7	32.7 ± 4.0	0.35 ± 0.09
HHb	8.6 ± 1.3	5.2 ± 0.9	0.62 ± 0.07	12.2 ± 1.0	4.5 ± 0.5	0.73 ± 0.04
HHc	18.6 ± 2.1	0.9 ± 1.4	0.95 ± 0.07
AWTb	352.9 ± 61.3	303.18 ± 42.8	0.54 ± 0.08	549.1 ± 66.6	644.4 ± 46.3	0.46 ± 0.05
AWTc	1255.5 ± 197.8	602.9 ± 140.2	0.70 ± 0.07
PNS24	69.7 ± 31.5	449.8 ± 21.9	0.13 ± 0.07	–	–	–
PPAI	4221.5 ± 1184.7	5970.2 ± 1006.8	0.42 ± 0.10	–	–	–
SC12	2.7 ± 0.4	2.1 ± 0.3	0.56 ± 0.07	–	–	–
BCSb	0.08 ± 0.0	0.09 ± 0.0	0.51 ± 0.07	0.2 ± 0.02	0.19 ± 0.01	0.52 ± 0.04
BCSc	0.42 ± 0.1	0.21 ± 0.1	0.66 ± 0.08
YWTb	244.9 ± 49.3	304.1 ± 34.6	0.45 ± 0.08	160.5 ± 23.6	293.1 ± 18.3	0.35 ± 0.05
YWTc	174.9 ± 36.9	188.4 ± 28.8	0.48 ± 0.09

^aTraits are as described in Table 1