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Table 4 Minimum and maximum heritability of colostral immunoglobulins concentrations and their phenotypic (below diagonal) and genetic correlationsa (above diagonal)

From: The concentrations of immunoglobulins in bovine colostrum determined by the gold standard method are genetically correlated with their near-infrared prediction

Traitb

Heritability

Reference

Prediction

Minimum

Maximum

IgG

IgA

IgM

IgG

IgA

IgM

Reference

    

 IgG

0.060

0.172

–

0.220 (0.733)

0.401 (0.420)

0.854* (0.314)

0.989 (0.560)

0.738* (0.256)

 IgA

0.078

0.178

0.554* (0.036)

–

0.144 (0.556)

Not converged

0.118 (0.784)

0.262 (0.726)

 IgM

0.216

0.249

0.603* (0.031)

0.520* (0.037)

–

− 0.050 (0.828)

0.264 (0.470)

0.521 (0.318)

Prediction

    

 IgG

0.058

0.145

0.767* (0.019)

0.533* (0.036)

0.551* (0.033)

–

0.897 (0.443)

0.761* (0.221)

 IgA

0.090

0.195

0.724* (0.024)

0.554* (0.035)

0.567* (0.035)

0.740* (0.022)

–

0.981* (0.174)

 IgM

0.195

0.254

0.775* (0.019)

0.569* (0.035)

0.583* (0.032)

0.821* (0.016)

0.778* (0.020)

–

  1. IgG immunoglobulins G, IgA immunoglobulins A, IgM immunoglobulins M
  2. *Significantly different from zero (P < 0.05)
  3. aStandard errors of estimates are given in parentheses
  4. bConcentrations (g/L) were measured through reference analysis and predicted from colostrum spectra using 100% of the calibration set