Principal component approach in variance component estimation for international sire evaluation

Table 4 Dissection of the estimates of France, New-Zealand South-Africa, Slovenia and Latvia: magnitude of the genetic correlations and their standard errors for protein yield.

	FRA^a	NZL	ZAF	SVN	LVA
	Genetic correlations
Min	0.40	0.22	0.17	0.23	0.08
Median	0.80	0.56	0.49	0.51	0.43
Mean	0.76	0.57	0.49	0.50	0.40
Max	0.90	0.81	0.69	0.69	0.62
	SEs of genetic correlations
Min	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.07	0.07
Median	0.02	0.03	0.05	0.08	0.08
Mean	0.03	0.05	0.06	0.09	0.09
Max	0.09	0.15	0.23	0.14	0.18

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