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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of estimated breeding values (EBVs) for the five semen production traits in this study

From: Genetic effects of PDGFRB and MARCH1 identified in GWAS revealing strong associations with semen production traits in Chinese Holstein bulls

Traits

No. of bulls

De-regressed EBV

Original EBV

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean accuracy

SVPE (ml)

730

0.03

2.04

0.09

0.84

0.65 ± 0.03

SMOT (%)

730

−0.26

6.38

0.21

3.13

0.71 ± 0.02

SCPE (×108/ml)

730

−0.19

3.40

−0.15

1.60

0.70 ± 0.02

NSPE (×108)

730

−0.29

26.68

0.37

13.23

0.71 ± 0.02

NMSPE (×108)

730

−0.06

19.91

0.44

8.65

0.67 ± 0.02