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Table 2 Effects of the DGAT1 promoter VNTR allele 5 on milk production traits in German Holstein cows

From: Dominance and parent-of-origin effects of coding and non-coding alleles at the acylCoA-diacylglycerol-acyltransferase (DGAT1) gene on milk production traits in German Holstein cows

 

DGAT1 232A/232A only

αab(S.E.)

all individuals

αab(S.E.)

Milk yield [kg]

-88.00.068 (48.0)

-93.10.0074 (34.7)

Milk fat content [%]

0.06300.0002 (0.0165)

0.0752<0.0001 (0.0124)

Milk fat yield [kg]

1.790.319 (1.79)

2.44 0.075 (1.37)

Milk protein content [%]

0.0171 0.032 (0.0079)

0.01840.0016 (0.0058)

Milk protein yield [kg]

-1.560.271 (1.41)

-1.670.106 (1.03)

  1. aaverage gene substitution effect of the DGAT1 promoter VNTR allele 5 compared to all other alleles, where α is defined according to Falconer and Mackay [27]; bp-values are given as indices.