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. 2022 Feb 15;12(4):jkac039. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkac039

Table 1.

Number of available observations (N), estimated heritability, assumptions from literature regarding the genetic architecture of the trait and references.

Trait N Heritabilitya Genetic architecture Reference
BMD 831 0.36 Evidence of epistatic effects Tyler et al. (2016)
BW10 834 0.42 Highly polygenic Tyler et al. (2017)
Chitre et al. (2020)
BW15 829 0.39 Highly polygenic Tyler et al. (2017)
Chitre et al. (2020)
BW20 827 0.38 Highly polygenic Tyler et al. (2017)
Chitre et al. (2020)
FATP 831 0.37 Highly polygenic Tyler et al. (2017)
CHOL 819 0.29 QTL with high effect Stewart et al. (2010)
Evidence of epistatic effects Li and Churchill (2010)
Zhang et al. (2012)
GLUC 816 0.18 Evidence of epistatic effects Stewart et al. (2010)
Chen et al. (2017)
INSUL 820 0.30 QTL with high effect Keller et al. (2019)
TRGL 820 0.22 Highly polygenic Stewart et al. (2010)
UCRT 799 0.21 Highly polygenic Perry (2019)
Evidence of dominance effects Zhang et al. (2012)
a

Standard error was close to 0.08 for all traits.