Genome-wide association and prediction of direct genomic breeding values for composition of fatty acids in Angus beef cattlea

Table 4 The pooled regression coefficient of phenotype on DGV ( b_(P,DGV)), the pooled simple correlation between DGV and phenotype ( r_(DGV,P)), and the realized accuracy¹of DGV for some fatty acid traits as percent in total fatty acid

Trait	b _{( P, DGV)}	r _{( DGV, P)}	Accuracy
14:0	0.93	0.43	0.57
16:0	0.95	0.38	0.53
18:0	0.66	0.20	0.27
cis-9 18:1	0.77	0.26	0.35
cis-12 18:1	0.89	0.18	0.35
trans-12 18:1	0.03	0.01	0.03
18:3n3	0.13	0.01	0.03
18:3n6	0.22	0.06	0.21
20:3n3	-0.47	-0.02	-0.06
20:3n6	-0.04	-0.01	-0.02
20:4	0.03	0.00	0.01
CLAc9t11	1.53	0.10	0.29
CLAt10c12	0.04	0.00	0.01
LCFA	0.95	0.42	0.57
MCFA	0.95	0.43	0.57
MUFA	0.87	0.26	0.38
PUFA	0.37	0.04	0.08
SFA	0.84	0.34	0.45
PUFA/SFA	0.45	0.06	0.12
(14:0+16:0)/All	0.94	0.40	0.55
Al	0.92	0.43	0.56
n3	-0.01	-0.01	-0.01
n6	0.18	0.02	0.07
n3/n6	0.00	0.00	0.00

¹As the pooled simple correlations between DGV and phenotypes in validation groups divided by the square root of trait heritability.

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