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Table. 3.

Table 3

Phenotypic correlations (above the diagonal) and genetic correlations (below the diagonal) between the four major traits and primal cut weight

Weight of primal cut
Trait	CWT	EMA	BFT	MSC	TDL	LN	STL	NK	CL	TR	BR	BK	SK	RIB
CWT		0.48	0.30	0.17	0.63	0.69	0.70	0.62	0.56	0.16	0.75	0.78	0.72	0.89
EMA	0.61		-0.02	0.35	0.45	0.50	0.67	0.45	0.33	0.08	0.52	0.50	0.48	0.43
BFT	0.30	-0.11		0.03	0.01	0.08	0.08	0.01	0.01	0.01	-0.02	0.10	-0.01	0.19
MSC	0.34	0.55	-0.07		0.08	0.23	0.33	0.08	0.12	-0.01	0.07	0.19	0.01	0.23
TDL	0.78	0.70	0.15	0.35		0.65	0.64	0.54	0.62	0.34	0.80	0.70	0.76	0.61
LN	0.88	0.83	0.06	0.56	0.79		0.67	0.47	0.60	0.37	0.69	0.67	0.65	0.70
STL	0.72	0.88	0.10	0.54	0.70	0.86		0.55	0.53	0.19	0.70	0.72	0.63	0.66
NK	0.87	0.82	0.01	0.32	0.84	0.92	0.79		0.43	0.10	0.61	0.54	0.60	0.51
CL	0.84	0.72	0.01	0.41	0.89	0.87	0.72	0.92		0.35	0.67	0.59	0.67	0.51
TR	0.52	0.54	-0.14	0.35	0.76	0.61	0.47	0.67	0.82		0.29	0.23	0.29	0.18
BR	0.82	0.67	0.05	0.33	0.89	0.82	0.74	0.86	0.91	0.83		0.75	0.87	0.68
BK	0.84	0.75	0.00	0.35	0.81	0.92	0.82	0.93	0.87	0.65	0.86		0.71	0.76
SK	0.87	0.68	0.07	0.21	0.89	0.83	0.72	0.87	0.88	0.67	0.94	0.84		0.65
RIB	0.93	0.65	0.18	0.48	0.68	0.88	0.71	0.82	0.82	0.52	0.75	0.77	0.79

CWT, carcass weight; EMA, eye muscle area; BFT, back fat thickness; MS, marbling score; TDL, tender loin; LN, loin; STL, strip loin; NK, neck; CL, clod; TR, top round; BR, bottom round; BK, brisket; SK, shank; RIB, rib.

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