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Table 2 Summary of variances estimated from BayesC GWAS for lactation yields of milk, fat and protein and average somatic cell score, using the Illumina Caprine 50 K BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) in 3732 New Zealand dairy goats

From: Genome-wide association studies of lactation yields of milk, fat, protein and somatic cell score in New Zealand dairy goats

Trait

Modela

Genetic variance

Phenotypic variance

Phenotypic variance explained by SNPs, %

Milk yield

sBayesC

12,925

73,865

18

hBayesC

8,739

71,128

12

dBayesC

8,484

70,893

12

Fat yield

sBayesC

13.15

83.27

16

hBayesC

9.23

80.82

11

dBayesC

9.06

80.53

11

Protein yield

sBayesC

8.61

63.91

14

hBayesC

5.48

62.06

9

dBayesC

5.38

61.89

9

Somatic cell score

sBayesC

0.28

1.45

20

hBayesC

0.28

1.45

20

dBayesC

0.28

1.45

20

  1. aModels = sBayesC=BayesC model fitting all SNPs simultaneously, hBayesC = BayesC model fitting 10 haplotype alleles as fixed effect and remaining SNPs as random effects simultaneously, dBayesC = BayesC model fitting diplotypes of h1 and h2 as well as the 8 remaining haplotypes, and the remaining SNPs as random effects simultaneously