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. 2021 Apr 1;99(5):skab106. doi: 10.1093/jas/skab106

Table 3.

Heritabilities for BWT, 200dg (200 d-weight gain), and 365dg (365 d-weight gain) with corresponding SE in different nHS-classes (diagonal), and genetic correlations with corresponding SE between same traits across nHS-classes (above the diagonal)

Trait1
Rec. period3
nHS-class2 0 1 2 3
BWT, kg 0 0.42 (0.04) 0.86 (0.11) 0.70 (0.12)
(7 d a.p.4) 1 0.51 (0.10) 0.80 (0.14)
2 0.59 (0.10)
200dg, kg 0 0.43 (0.07) 0.38 (0.19) 0.13 (0.21) 0.27 (0.22)
(56 d a.p.) 1 0.34 (0.10) 0.43 (0.24) -0.06 (0.25)
2 0.48 (0.12) 0.74 (0.19)
3 0.57 (0.12)
365dg, kg 0 0.43 (0.07) 0.53 (0.17) 0.39 (0.22) 0.42 (0.24)
(56 d a.p.) 1 0.52 (0.12) 0.77 (0.18) 0.49 (0.26)
2 0.47 (0.13) 1.00 (0.16)
3 0.63 (0.18)
200dg, kg 0 0.42 (0.12) 0.18 (0.20) 0.11 (0.20) -0.17 (0.20)
(56 d p.p.5) 1 0.45 (0.12) 0.67 (0.22) 0.13 (0.24)
2 0.56 (0.13) 0.58 (0.18)
3 0.61 (0.12)
365dg, kg 0 0.48 (0.08) 0.78 (0.20) 0.06 (0.23) 0.43 (0.22)
(56 d p.p.) 1 0.47 (0.13) 0.64 (0.26) 0.46 (0.25)
2 0.48 (0.16) 0.23 (0.27)
3 0.51 (0.10)

1Traits: BWT, birth weight; 200dg, 200 d-weight gain; 365dg, 365 d-weight gain.

2nHS-class, class for number of HS days (7 d-period: class 0: 0 d; class 1: 1 to 3 d; class 2: 4 to 7 d; 56 d-period: class 0: 0 d; class 1: 1 to 10 d; class 2: 11 to 30 d; class 3: 31 to 56 d).

3Rec. period, recording period (7 d, 7 d period; 56 d, 56 d period).

4a.p., ante partum/prenatal.

5p.p., postpartum/postnatal.