Exploring causal networks of bovine milk fatty acids in a multivariate mixed model context

Table 2 Multi-trait genetic parameters ¹ for bovine milk fatty acids ^2,3

	C4:0	C6:0	C8:0	C10:0	C12:0	C14:0	C16:0	C18:0	C10:1	C12:1	C14:1	C16:1	C18:1	CLA
C4:0	0.53	0.91	0.83	0.77	0.71	0.87	0.89	0.66	0.50	0.39	0.48	0.50	0.54	0.28
C6:0	0.91	0.49	0.94	0.90	0.86	0.93	0.87	0.63	0.63	0.54	0.54	0.49	0.43	0.16
C8:0	0.78	0.91	0.48	0.95	0.92	0.93	0.81	0.59	0.67	0.61	0.53	0.45	0.35	0.08
C10:0	0.56	0.76	0.89	0.43	0.94	0.92	0.76	0.58	0.64	0.62	0.50	0.40	0.30	0.02
C12:0	0.47	0.66	0.81	0.88	0.42	0.89	0.71	0.54	0.62	0.63	0.48	0.37	0.26	-0.01
C14:0	0.56	0.74	0.87	0.91	0.90	0.39	0.88	0.65	0.60	0.57	0.56	0.53	0.46	0.16
C16:0	0.87	0.82	0.69	0.49	0.47	0.53	0.33	0.55	0.61	0.55	0.69	0.73	0.53	0.31
C18:0	0.80	0.75	0.63	0.44	0.30	0.41	0.69	0.37	-0.01	-0.06	0.02	0.13	0.70	0.23
C10:1	0.63	0.70	0.74	0.65	0.70	0.73	0.62	0.41	0.61	0.88	0.81	0.62	0.00	0.04
C12:1	0.39	0.48	0.57	0.57	0.71	0.68	0.47	0.16	0.88	0.63	0.82	0.63	-0.03	0.00
C14:1	0.45	0.49	0.53	0.47	0.60	0.60	0.50	0.26	0.90	0.93	0.67	0.83	0.22	0.23
C16:1	0.61	0.61	0.57	0.48	0.54	0.52	0.71	0.31	0.54	0.53	0.46	0.49	0.43	0.37
C18:1	0.82	0.86	0.84	0.72	0.71	0.76	0.79	0.60	0.79	0.66	0.66	0.72	0.52	0.48
CLA	0.39	0.49	0.58	0.61	0.69	0.66	0.42	0.09	0.57	0.62	0.50	0.66	0.66	0.56

¹Heritabilities are shown in bold on the diagonal, genetic correlations below the diagonal and residual correlations above diagonal; ²In g/kg milk; ³Time-series standard errors for the variance components and correlations ranged from 0.0007 to 0.0091 and posterior standard deviations for the variance components and correlations ranged between 0.018 and 0.211.

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