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Table 5 Proportion of genetic to phenotypic variances estimated with model 2 for marbling score

From: Effects of single nucleotide polymorphism marker density on degree of genetic variance explained and genomic evaluation for carcass traits in Japanese Black beef cattle

No. of SNPs selected

Binary*

Categorical*

100

0.15 ± 0.04

0.14 ± 0.03

200

0.15 ± 0.04

0.13 ± 0.03

500

0.33 ± 0.06

0.22 ± 0.04

1,000

0.51 ± 0.08

0.34 ± 0.06

2,000

0.66 ± 0.08

0.50 ± 0.06

4,000

-

0.65 ± 0.07

6,000

-

0.75 ± 0.08

8,000

-

0.70 ± 0.07

10,000

-

0.82 ± 0.07

  1. *Binary: treated as a binary trait; Categorical: treated as a categorical trait with 11 categories.