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Cattle Trait Heritabilities

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Summary: There are 14 heritability data found on "Milk lactose content" trait. n: 14 Median: 0.417 Mean: 0.422 Min-Max range: 0.200 - 0.640 STD: 0.153 Interquartile range: 0.302 - 0.557 95% CI: 0.342 - 0.502 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.557 Mean 5.146 Standard deviation 0.130 Variance 0.0189 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Lopdell Thomas J et al., (2017) DNA and RNA-sequence based GWAS highlights membrane-transport genes. . . BMC Genomics, 18 (1): 968 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.450 Mean 5.152 Standard deviation 0.124 Variance 0.0156 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Lopdell Thomas J et al., (2017) DNA and RNA-sequence based GWAS highlights membrane-transport genes. . . BMC Genomics, 18 (1): 968 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.557 Mean 5.135 Standard deviation 0.134 Variance 0.0189 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Lopdell Thomas J et al., (2017) DNA and RNA-sequence based GWAS highlights membrane-transport genes. . . BMC Genomics, 18 (1): 968 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.64 Mean 4.63 Standard deviation n/a Variance 0.02 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Stoop et al., (2007) Genetic parameters for milk urea nitrogen in relation to milk. . . Journal of Dairy Science, 90 (4): 1981-6 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.43 Mean 4.76 Standard deviation 0.17 Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Costa A et al., (2018) Heritability and repeatability of milk lactose and its relationships. . . Animal : An International Journal of Animal Bioscience, Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.64 Mean 5.09 Standard deviation 0.15 Variance 0.019 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance 0 Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Sneddon NW et al., (2012) Genetic parameters for lactose and its relationship with. . . Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, 72:76-80 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.566 Mean 4.83 Standard deviation n/a Variance 0.01397 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Costa et al., (2019) Genetic associations of lactose and its ratios to other milk solids. . . Journal of Dairy Science, Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.38 Mean 4.86 Standard deviation n/a Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Costa A et al., (2019) On the genomic regions associated with milk lactose in Fleckvieh. . . Journal of Dairy Science, Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.30 Mean n/a Standard deviation n/a Variance 0.044 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance 0.007 Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Petrini J et al., (2016) Genetic Parameters for Milk Fatty Acids, Milk Yield and Quality. . . J Anim Breed Genet, 133(5):384-95 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.31 Mean n/a Standard deviation n/a Variance 0.044 Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance 0.006 Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Petrini J et al., (2016) Genetic Parameters for Milk Fatty Acids, Milk Yield and Quality. . . J Anim Breed Genet, 133(5):384-95 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.21 Mean 4.76 Standard deviation 0.24 Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance 0.01052 Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Bobbo T et al., (2020) Genetic Parameters of Bovine Milk Fatty Acid Profile, Yield,. . . Animals : An Open Access Journal From MDPI, 10(12):2406 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.405 Mean n/a Standard deviation n/a Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Costa A et al., (2019) Genetic relationships of lactose and freezing point with minerals and Journal of Dairy Science, 102 (8): 7217-7225 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.26 Mean n/a Standard deviation n/a Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance n/a Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments % Reference: Duchemin SI et al., (2020) Genetic parameters for noncoagulating milk, milk coagulation. . . Journal of Dairy Science, 103 (9): 8330-8342 Heritability of "Milk lactose content" (MLC) = 0.20 Mean n/a Standard deviation n/a Variance n/a Genetic variance on mother side n/a Genetic variance on father side n/a Permanent environmental variance 0.001 Temperary environmental variance n/a Comments Reference: Velayudhan SM et al., (2023) Unraveling the Genomic Association for Milk Production Traits and. . . Biology, 12(12):1483 14 records of 2,873 cattle heritability records match your search. To explore further: use the Filter tool box on top right of the page to explore more. browse the list of traits for what you look for.   © 2003-2025: USA · USDA · NRPSP8 · Program to Accelerate Animal Genomics Applications. Contact: Bioinformatics Team