Effects of heterozygosity on performance of purebred and crossbred pigs

Table 8 Predictive ability (SE) for Norwegian Landrace with and without heterozygosity in the model

Trait	Base model	Model with heterozygosity
Total number born	0.227 (0.014)^a	0.244 (0.014)^b
Stillborn	0.161 (0.014)^a	0.160 (0.014)^a
Dead at 3 weeks	0.168 (0.014)^a	0.168 (0.014)^a
Litter weight 3 weeks, kg	0.342 (0.013)^a	0.350 (0.013)^b
Litter variance at 3 weeks	0.143 (0.014)^a	0.142 (0.014)^a
Shoulder lesions of sow at weaning	0.273 (0.014)^a	0.273 (0.014)^a
Body condition score of sow at weaning	0.243 (0.014)^a	0.244 (0.014)^a

^a,bDifferent superscript letters within a row indicate significant differences at P < 0.05

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