The genetic basis of natural antibody titers of young healthy pigs and relationships with disease resilience

Chen, Yulu; Tibbs-Cortes, Laura E.; Ashley, Carolyn; Putz, Austin M.; Lim, Kyu-Sang; Dyck, Michael K.; Fortin, Frederic; Plastow, Graham S.; Dekkers, Jack C. M.; Harding, John C. S.

doi:10.1186/s12864-020-06994-0

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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of log_e-transformed sample/positive ratio (S/P) for IgG and IgM natural antibodies against four antigens and for total IgG in blood of young healthy pigs, and of their subsequent performance and resilience phenotypes during a natural polymicrobial disease challenge

From: The genetic basis of natural antibody titers of young healthy pigs and relationships with disease resilience

Trait	N^p	Mean^q	SD^r	Min^s	Max^t
KLH^a-G^h	1704	− 1.13	0.61	−3.56	0.79
LPS^b-G	1702	−1.01	0.62	−3.58	0.85
LTA^c-G	1704	−0.50	0.77	−3.40	1.10
PDG^d-G	1704	−0.37	0.37	−2.30	0.55
Ave-G^e	1702	−0.75	0.43	−2.99	1.15
KLH-Mⁱ	1702	−0.26	0.62	−2.62	1.25
LPS-M	1703	−0.27	0.62	−2.66	1.67
LTA-M	1703	−1.77	0.88	−4.39	0.79
PDG-M	1702	−0.46	0.56	−2.62	0.94
Ave-M^f	1699	−0.69	0.57	−2.99	0.91
IgG-T^g	1640	−0.33	0.47	−3.03	1.15
ALLMOR^j	3286	0.26	0.44	0.00	1.00
cNurMOR^k	3256	0.11	0.32	0.00	1.00
FinMOR^l	2886	0.16	0.37	0.00	1.00
cNurTRT^m	3231	1.17	1.23	0.00	10.50
FinTRTⁿ	2375	0.34	0.62	0.00	4.79
ALLTRT^o	2941	2.02	2.13	0.00	15.32
qNurADG^p	3277	0.28	0.10	−0.21	0.58
cNurADG^q	3246	0.29	0.18	−0.31	1.00
cFinADG^r	2376	0.90	0.13	0.27	1.25
ADFI^s	2376	2.20	0.32	0.92	3.19
VAR_FI^t	2464	0.50	0.10	0.19	0.95
VAR_DUR^u	2464	13.48	3.91	6.22	34.55
OFF_FI^v	2463	0.04	0.07	0.00	0.87
OFF_DUR^w	2463	0.04	0.05	0.00	0.49

^aKLH = keyhole limpet hemocyanin
^bLPS = lipopolysaccharide
^cLTA = lipoteichoic acid
^dPDG = peptidoglycan
^eAve-G = the average NAb IgG isotype binding to the four antigens
^fAve-M = the average NAb IgM isotype binding to the four antigens
^gIgG-T = total IgG level in plasma (unit is mg/ml)
^hG = isotype IgG binding to the four antigens
ⁱM = isotype IgM binding to the four antigens
^jALLMOR = 1 for pigs that that died prior to slaughter; = 0 for pigs that survived to slaughter
^kcNurMOR = mortality for challenge nursery period
^lFinMOR = mortality for challenge finishing period
^mcNurTRT = the number of treatment rate adjusted to 27 days during the challenge nursery in the NCDM
ⁿFinTRT = the number of treatment rate adjusted to 100 days during the finishing period in the NCDM
^oALLTRT = the number of treatment rate adjusted to 180 days in the NCDM
^pqNurADG = average daily gain for quarantine nursery period
^qcNurADG = average daily gain for challenge nursery period
^rcFinADG = average daily gain for challenge finishing period
^sADFI = average daily feed intake
^tVAR_FI = the root mean square error from the within individual regression of feed intake on age
^uVAR_DUR = the root mean square error from the within individual regression of feed intake duration on age
^vOFF_FI = the proportion of negative residuals for 5% quantile regression of feed intake on age across all pigs
^wOFF_DUR = the proportion of negative residuals for 5% quantile regression of feed intake duration on age across all pigs

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