Animal Trait Correlation Database

 Cattle Trait Details

Meat percentage (MEATP)
Trait ID :1229
Mean : 55.19 (%)
Standard deviation : 12.03
Heritability :0.38
Variance : 
Genetic variance on mother side : 
Genetic variance on father side : 
Permanent environmental variance : 
Temporary environmental variance : 

Reference

Lu D, Sargolzaei M, Kelly M, Vander Voort G, Wang Z, MI, Moore S, Plastow G, Miller SP, (2013)

Genome-wide association analyses for carcass quality in crossbred beef cattle

BMC Genetics, 14: 80

Additional information about the trait :

Description :Meat weight expressed as a percentage of weight of carcass or portion of carcass
Measure unit :%

Annotated data to this trait:

 18 QTL/SNP associations are found on this trait 10 correlartion records are linked with this trait 1 heritability measurement is reported on this trait
 

 

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