Animal Trait Correlation Database

 Cattle Trait Details

Milk palmitic acid content (MFA-C16:0)
Trait ID :1323
Mean : 1.261 (%, g/dL)
Standard deviation : 0.266
Heritability :0.38
Variance : 
Genetic variance on mother side : 
Genetic variance on father side : 
Permanent environmental variance : 
Temporary environmental variance : 

Reference

Vanrobays M-L, Bastin C, Vandenplas J, Hammami H, Soyeurt H, Vanlierde A, Dehareng F, Froidmont E, Gengler N, (2016)

Changes throughout lactation in phenotypic and genetic correlations between methane emissions and milk fatty acid contents predicted from milk mid-infrared spectra

Journal of Dairy Science, 99 (9): 7247-7260

Additional information about the trait :

Description :Amount in milk of a saturated fatty acid with a 16-carbon backbone
Measure unit :%, g/dL
Link to Vertibrate Trait ontology :Accession: VT:0010316

Annotated data to this trait:

 1,963 QTL/SNP associations are found on this trait 116 correlartion records are linked with this trait 13 heritability measurements are reported on this trait
 

 

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