Expression quantitative trait loci in sheep liver and muscle contribute to variations in meat traits

Table 1 Summarized information for molecular phenotype heritability

Molecular phenotype	Total number	Number of heritable phenotypes	Heritable ratio	Mean heritability (standard deviation)
Liver gene expression	13,243	290	0.0219	0.73 (0.14)
Liver exon expression	63,872	7014	0.1098	0.67 (0.13)
Liver intron excision	91,699	2389	0.0261	0.72 (0.14)
Muscle gene expression	12,989	487	0.0375	0.77 (0.12)
Muscle exon expression	60,230	12,599	0.2092	0.73 (0.13)
Muscle intron excision	87,257	4198	0.0481	0.71 (0.13)

Details include the total number of molecular phenotypes (total number), the number of molecular phenotypes that were heritable (number of heritable phenotypes, heritability > 0, P < 0.05), the ratio of heritable molecular phenotypes to total number (heritable ratio) and the mean heritability of the heritable molecular phenotypes (mean heritability) and standard deviations

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