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Table 2 Genomic heritabilities (h2) for fatty acid (FA) profile of Longissimus dorsi muscle in Santa Inês sheep

From: Estimates of genomic heritability and genome-wide association study for fatty acids profile in Santa Inês sheep

Trait

Nomenclature

aVg

bVe

cVp

h2 (dSE)

Myristic acid

C14:0

0.11

0.13

0.24

0.44 (0.045)

Palmitic acid

C16:0

0.95

2.84

3.79

0.25 (0.033)

Stearic acid

C18:0

2.63

6.18

8.81

0.30 (0.037)

Palmitoleic acid

C16:1

0.014

0.034

0.048

0.30 (0.035)

Oleic acid

C18:1

2.23

5.77

8.00

0.28 (0.035)

Linoleic acid

C18:2 ω6

0.32

0.88

1.20

0.27 (0.034)

Conjugated linoleic acid

CLA c9t11

0.005

0.010

0.015

0.34 (0.045)

Alpha-Linolenic acid

C18:3 ω3

0.006

0.007

0.013

0.46 (0.045)

Sum of saturated FA

SFAt

4.45

9.44

13.89

0.32 (0.039)

Sum of monounsaturated FA

MUFAt

3.58

7.98

11.56

0.31 (0.038)

Sum of polyunsaturated FA

PUFAt

0.90

2.35

3.25

0.28 (0.034)

Sum of omega-3 FA

ω3t

0.05

0.09

0.15

0.37 (0.045)

Sum of omega-6 FA

ω6t

0.64

1.77

2.41

0.27 (0.034)

Ratio of PUFA to SFA

PUFA/SFA

0.0006

0.0015

0.0021

0.28 (0.034)

Ratio of ω6 to ω3

ω6/ω3

6.48

13.27

19.75

0.33 (0.042)

  1. aadditive genetic variance; b residual variance; c total phenotypic variance; d standard error