A variance component estimation approach to infer associations between Mendelian polledness and quantitative production and female fertility traits in German Simmental cattle

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the polled trait in the analyzed real dataset before and after inference of genotypes

Dataset	Number of animals	pp	Pp	PP	p(P)
Animals with phenotypes
Initially registered	2420	1605 (28)	771 (65)	44 (4)	0.177
After inference	2420	1532	863	25	0.189
Full pedigree	13,256	11,737 (28)	1428 (264)	91 (68)	0.061

pp: horned, Pp: heterozygous polled, PP: homozygous polled, p(P): polled allele frequency
The number of animals with a gene-test result at the polled locus is given between brackets

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