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Table 2 Estimates of heritability and of the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by litter effects for loge-transformed sample/positive ratios for IgG and IgM natural antibody against four antigens and for total IgG in blood of young healthy piglets

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

Antibody

Heritability (SE)

Litter effects (SE)

KLHa-Ge

0.13 (0.05)

0.46 (0.03)

LPSb-G

0.14 (0.05)

0.53 (0.03)

LTAc-G

0.18 (0.05)

0.56 (0.03)

PDGd-G

0.15 (0.05)

0.51 (0.03)

Ave-Gg

0.23 (0.05)

0.43 (0.03)

KLH-Mf

0.36 (0.07)

0.10 (0.04)

LPS-M

0.45 (0.07)

0.06 (0.03)

LTA-M

0.54 (0.06)

0.00 (0.00)

PDG-M

0.36 (0.06)

0.08 (0.03)

Ave-Mh

0.51 (0.07)

0.04 (0.03)

IgG-Ti

0.19 (0.06)

0.19 (0.04)

  1. aKLH = keyhole limpet hemocyanin
  2. bLPS = lipopolysaccharide
  3. cLTA = lipoteichoic acid
  4. dPDG = peptidoglycan
  5. eG = isotype IgG
  6. fM = isotype IgM
  7. gAve-G = the average of logeNAb IgG across the four antigens
  8. hAve-M = the average of logeNAb IgM across the four antigens
  9. iIgGT = the S/P ratio for total IgG level in plasma