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Table 3 Genetic variances and heritabilities for Landrace (herd*year var = 0.233)

From: Heritability of longevity in Large White and Landrace sows using continuous time and grouped data models

Genetic models

Continuous scale

Grouped data scale

 

Variance (std deviation)

Heritability (std deviation)

Variance (std deviation)

Heritability (std deviation)

Animal

0.078 (0.025)

0.049 (0.015)

0.122 (0.033)

0.074 (0.019)

Sire mgs dam

0.074 a (0.011)

0.047 (0.014)

0.104b (0.013)

0.066 (0.016)

Sire dam

0.123 (0.025)

0.078 (0.015)

0.184 (0.032)

0.114 (0.019)

Sire mgs

0.078 (0.011)

0.050 (0.014)

0.108 (0.013)

0.069 (0.017)

Sire

0.115 (0.015)

0.074 (0.020)

0.163 (0.018)

0.105 (0.023)

  1. adam within maternal grandsire (mgs) variance = 0.027; bdam within maternal grandsire variance = 0.029
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