Table 1 Descriptive statistics, variance components and genomic heritability.

From: Integration of genome wide association studies and whole genome sequencing provides novel insights into fat deposition in chicken

Trait

N

Average ± SDa

Genetic variance

Residual variance

Total variance

Genomic heritabilityb

ABF

476

15.60 ± 7.26

11.481

10.301

21.782

0.47

ABFP

476

1.56 ± 0.60

0.133

0.169

0.302

0.56

CFC

451

145.35 ± 40.52

212.237

159.809

372.047

0.43

CFCDM

451

39.75 ± 4.63

8.404

9.859

18.263

0.54

  1. ABF: abdominal fat weight in grams; ABFP: abdominal fat percentage; CFC: carcass fat content in grams; CFCDM: carcass fat content on dry matter basis.
  2. aMeans and standard errors.
  3. bGenomic heritability estimated with a Bayes B model.
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