Table 3.
Mean serum biochemical values of the 3 genotypes (i.e., nanaff, Nanaff, and NanaFf) at 18 and 20 wk of age.
| Age (wk) | Genotype | Parameter |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total protein (g/L) | Albumen (g/L) | Globulin (g/L) | Cholesterol mmol/L | ||
| Eighteen (18) | nanaff | 46.07 | 29.03 | 17.03 | 4.20 |
| Nanaff | 50.93 | 33.40 | 17.53 | 3.90 | |
| NanaFf | 42.47 | 25.80 | 16.67 | 4.00 | |
| L.s.d. | 16.18 | 13.02 | 5.46 | 1.34 | |
| S.e.d. | 6.61 | 5.32 | 2.23 | 0.55 | |
| P-value | 0.478 | 0.413 | 0.923 | 0.86 | |
| Twenty (20) | nanaff | 49.03 | 28.90 | 20.43 | 4.07a |
| Nanaff | 61.76 | 38.47 | 21.97 | 3.47b | |
| NanaFf | 54.27 | 27.07 | 19.80 | 3.53b | |
| L.s.d. | 13.50 | 11.95 | 2.62 | 0.43 | |
| S.e.d. | 5.70 | 4.89 | 1.07 | 0.18 | |
| P-value | 0.089 | 0.117 | 0.195 | 0.027 | |
a,bmeans within column bearing different superscripts are significantly different.
Abbreviations: L.s.d, least significant difference; P, probability value; S.e.d, standard error of deviation.