Animal Trait Correlation Database
Cattle Trait Heritabilities
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19 heritability data on 19 traits returned.
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Trait (symbol)
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Heritability
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Mean (stdiv)
Variance
Reference
Cattle
Milk fat percentage (
FP
)
=
0.49
4.36
n/a
Cattle
Milk caproic acid content (
MFA-C6:0
)
=
0.47
2.22
n/a
Cattle
Milk caprylic acid content (
MFA-C8:0
)
=
0.61
1.37
n/a
Cattle
Milk capric acid content (
MFA-C10:0
)
=
0.72
3.03
n/a
Cattle
Milk lauric acid content (
MFA-C12:0
)
=
0.64
4.11
n/a
Cattle
Milk myristic acid content (
MFA-C14:0
)
=
0.62
11.61
n/a
Cattle
Milk palmitic acid content (
MFA-C16:0
)
=
0.43
32.59
n/a
Cattle
Milk pentadecylic acid content (
MFA-C15:0
)
=
0.30
1.17
n/a
Cattle
Milk C14 index (
MC14
)
=
0.45
10.51
n/a
Cattle
Milk C16 index (
MC16
)
=
0.47
4.24
n/a
Cattle
Milk tridecylic acid content (
MFA-C13:0
)
=
0.19
0.11
n/a
Cattle
Milk butyric acid content (
MFA-C4:0
)
=
0.44
3.50
n/a
Cattle
Milk margaric acid content (
MFA-C17:0
)
=
0.33
0.45
n/a
Cattle
Milk undecylic acid content (
MFA-C11:0
)
=
0.34
0.08
n/a
Cattle
Milk C10 index (
MC10
)
=
0.37
10.89
n/a
Cattle
Milk valeric acid content (
MFA-C5:0
)
=
0.14
0.03
n/a
Cattle
Milk enanthic acid content (
MFA-C7:0
)
=
0.17
0.03
n/a
Cattle
Milk heptadecenoic acid content (
MFA-C17:1
)
=
0.43
0.18
n/a
Cattle
Milk C17 index (
MC17
)
=
0.47
28.29
n/a
19
records of
2,873
cattle heritability records returned.
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