Table 2 Estimates of variance components and genetic parameters of body weight and its uniformity based on the sire-dam double hierarchical generalized linear model when using pedigree (\({\mathbf{A}}\)) or combined pedigree and genomic relationships (\({\mathbf{H}}\)) and standard or log-transformed phenotypes

Body weight

 \(\sigma_{P}^{2}\)

0.843

0.856

0.131

0.132

 \(\sigma_{a}^{2}\)

0.216

0.243

0.043

0.046

 \(\sigma_{c}^{2}\)

0.095

0.091

0.013

0.014

 h ²

0.266^0.095

0.296^0.102

0.325^0.102

0.346^0.107

 c ²

0.117^0.037

0.111^0.037

0.103^0.038

0.103^0.038

Uniformity of body weight

 \(\sigma_{{a_{v} ,exp}}^{2}\)

0.2303^0.1094

0.2732^0.1211

0.0896^0.0569

0.0885^0.0598

 \(\sigma_{{a_{v} }}^{2}\)

0.0612

0.0677

0.0005

0.0005

 \(\sigma_{{c_{v} }}^{2}\)

0.0360

0.0306

0.0000

0.0001

 \(GCV\)

0.480^0.114

0.523^0.116

0.299^0.095

0.298^0.100

 \(h_{v}^{2}\)

0.036^0.019

0.038^0.020

0.015^0.014

0.014^0.013

 \(c_{v}^{2}\)

0.022

0.019

0.001

0.002