SeokHyun Lee2, SoHee Kim1, ByungHo Park2, SiDong Kim2 and ChangHee Do1*
1Division of Animal and Dairy Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134.
2National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Cheonan, 31000, Korea.
Correspondence to ChangHee Do, E-mail: ivando@cnu.ac.kr
Volume 2, Number 2, Pages 75-82, June 2018.
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genomics 2018, 2(2), 75-82. https://doi.org/10.12972/jabng.20180023
Received on 6 February, 2018, Revised on 10 March, 2018, Accepted on 8 June, 2018, Published on June 30, 2018.
Copyright © 2018 Korean Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).
This study was conducted to investigate the genetic parameters and trends using the carcass data of Hanwoo (Korean beef cattle). The traits to be analyzed were six of the back fat thickness, the longissimus muscle, the carcass weight, the intramuscular fat, the meat quality and quantity grade. The heritabilities estimated were 0.31, 0.34, 0.42, 0.43, 0.24, and 0.17, respectively, using the REML Animal model. In the genetic correlation, the back fat thickness showed positive correlations with the carcass weight, intramuscular fat and meat quantity grade of 0.31, 0.10, and 0.93, respectively, and negatively correlated with the longissimus muscle and meat quality grade of -0.06 and -0.13. The longissimus muscle was positively correlated with the carcass weight and intramuscular fat of 0.66 and 0.26, respectively, and negatively correlated with the meat quality and quantity grade of -0.25 and -0.36, respectively. Correlation between carcass weight and quality grade was 0.15 and 0.13, respectively. Correlation between carcass weight and meat quality grade was negative at -0.13. Intramuscular fat was negatively correlated with meat quality grade at –0.98. The annual genetic improvement estimated by simple regression was estimated to be -0.027mm in back fat thickness, 0.072cm2 in longissimus muscle area, 0.396kg in carcass weight, 0.011 in intramuscular fat score, -0.003, in meat quality point and -0.004 in meat quantity grade point, respectively
Hanwoo, carcass traits, genetic parameter, genetic trend