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. 2023 Mar 7;55:14. doi: 10.1186/s12711-023-00785-3

Table 4.

Estimates of heritabilities and standard errors (SE) (in bold on the diagonal) and of genetic correlations (below the diagonal) and their standard errors (above the diagonal)

BWB BWC WMPct LegQPct FE Gain
BWB 0.34 (0.02) 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.04 0.04
BWC 0.59 0.37 (0.03) 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
WMPct 0.25 0.04 0.61 (0.03) 0.05 0.05 0.05
LegQPct − 0.06 0.02 − 0.39 0.60 (0.03) 0.05 0.05
FE 0.02 0.03 − 0.26 0.08 0.24 (0.01) 0.05
Gain 0.30 0.11 0.02 0.01 0.18 0.22 (0.01)

Bold characters refer to the esstimates of heritabilities and their standard errors (SE)

BWB body weight recorded in Env B; BWC body weight recorded in Env C; WMPct white meat percentage; LegQPct leg quarter percentage; FE feed efficiency; and Gain: bodyweight gain