TABLE 2.

Posterior means (95% HPD) for (co)variance components, heritability, and genetic correlations for brown swiss and jersey, respectively.

Parameters	Brown swiss	Jersey
Sire variance [95% HPD]	0.017 [0.008–0.027]	0.016 [0.012–0.019]
MGS variance [95% HPD]	0.005 [0.001–0.009]	0.014 [0.010–0.017]
Sire-MGS covariance [95% HPD]	0.006 [0.001–0.011]	0.005 [0.002–0.008]
Direct heritability [95% HPD]	0.068 [0.032–0.105]	0.060 [0.045–0.076]
Maternal heritability [95% HPD]	0.011 [0.006–0.029]	0.047 [0.033–0.061]
Direct-maternal genetic correlation [95% HPD]	−0.350 [−0.472 – −0.117]	−0.152 [−0.379 – −0.076]

HPD, highest posterior density interval.