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Table 4 Heritability for infection status with normal and probit analysis

From: Genetic parameters for somatic cell score according to udder infection status in Valle del Belice dairy sheep and impact of imperfect diagnosis of infection

 

Normal analysis*

h2± SE

Probit analysis**

h2± SE

Expected value†

h2

Infection status

0.05 ± 0.02

0.09 ± 0.04

0.09

  1. *Treating the infection status as a continuous variable.
  2. **Treating the infection status as a binary trait.
  3. †Calculated with Dempster and Lerner's formula [17].
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Genetics Selection Evolution

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