Table 4 Estimates and standard errors (SE) of ELISA plate variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{c}}}^{2}\)), individual non genetic variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{p}}}^{2}\)), genetic variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{g}}}^{2}\)), QTL variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}\)), residual variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{e}}}^{2}\)), total variance (\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{tot}}}^{2}\)) estimated for CAR and SP when random QTL effects were included in the animal models

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{c}}}^{2}\)

68 (10)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{p}}}^{2}\)

–

1058 (47)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{g}}}^{2}\)

0.0334 (0.006)

379 (55)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}\)

0.0074 (0.002)

56 (13)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{e}}}^{2}\)

0.1653 (0.006)

737 (10)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{tot}}}^{2}\)

0.2063 (0.006)

2230 (47)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{g}}}^{2}+{\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}\)

0.0408 (0.006)

436 (56)

\(\left({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{g}}}^{2}+{\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}\right)/{\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{tot}}}^{2}\)

0.20 (0.027)

0.20 (0.023)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}/{\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{tot}}}^{2}\)

0.036 (0.008)

0.025 (0.006)

\({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}/\left({\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{g}}}^{2}+{\widehat{\upsigma }}_{{\text{q}}}^{2}\right)\)

0.18 (0.046)

0.13 (0.032)