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Table 4 Estimates of additive genetic variance (\(\upsigma_{\text{a}}^{2}\)), dominance variance (\(\upsigma_{\text{d}}^{2}\)), and the proportions of these variances (\({\text{h}}_{\text{a}}^{ 2} \;{\text{and}}\;{\text{h}}_{\text{d}}^{ 2}\)) relative to phenotypic variance

From: Genomic prediction of crossbred performance based on purebred Landrace and Yorkshire data using a dominance model

Parameters

Landrace

Yorkshire

Pedigree

Genomic

Pedigree

Genomic

\(\upsigma_{\text{a}}^{2}\)

1.29 (0.03)

0.78 (0.13)

1.00 (0.03)

0.66 (0.12)

\(\upsigma_{\text{d}}^{2}\)

0.12 (0.07)

0.12 (0.06)

\({\text{h}}_{\text{a}}^{2}\)

0.10 (0.002)

0.05 (0.02)

0.08 (0.003)

0.05 (0.02)

\({\text{h}}_{\text{d}}^{2}\)

0.007 (0.01)

0.01 (0.01)