Jae-Kwang Noh1, Chan-Hyuk Park1, Ji-Hyun Son1, Ki-Hwan Lee1, Chang-Hee Do2, Hyun-Tae Lim3,4, Jung-Gyu Lee3,4, TaeJeong Choi5, Yang-Mo Koo1*
1Genetic & IT solutions Division, KAIA, Seocho, 06668, Korea
2Division of Animal & Dairy Science, CNU, Daejeon, 34134, Korea
3Department of animal Science, GNU, JinJu, 52828, Korea
4Institute of Agriculture & Life Science, GNU, JinJu, 52828, Korea
5Animal Genetics & Breeding Division, NIAS, Cheonan, 31000, Korea
Correspondence to Yang-Mo Koo, E-mail: greatman009@gmail.com
Volume 5, Number 2, Pages 71-93, June 2021.
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genomics 2021, 5(2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.12972/jabng.20210006
Received on 02 April, 2021, Revised on 27 June, 2021, Accepted on 28 June, 2021, Published on 30 June, 2021.
Copyright © 2021 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 explore the connection between the birth weight and carcass traits of Hanwoo and to use the data collected from Chungnam National University, which participated in the Hanwoo cow test farm project, as basic data on the establishment of improvement goals for birth weight. The analysis used 342,659 birth weights of animals born from 2002 to 2018, 302,474 animals of pedigree data and 387,961 animals of carcass traits data. In order to estimate the correlation between birth weight and carcass traits, two statistical models were established and analyzed in consideration of environmental factors affecting the trait. In the first model(Model 1), the heritability of steer was 0.28, 0.67, 0.70, 0.41, 0.63 and 0.48 in BW, SW, CW, EMA, MS and BF, respectively. The cows were 0.30, 0.34, 0.32, 0.20, 0.21 and 0.37, respectively. The results of the second model(Model 2), including the permanent environmental effect of the maternal, showed an increase in heritability of 0.01 to 0.29 for steer and 0.31 for cows, showing no significant change. Genetic correlations between BW, SW, CW, EMA, MS and BF in steer were 0.39, 0.42, 0.40, 0.25, and 0.24, respectively, showing moderate correlations. The cows BW, SW, CW, EMA showed similar results with 0.31, 0.41, and 0.44, respectively. According to the results of the study, the genetic relationship between the heritability to BW, SW, CW and carcass trait shows that the birth weight is related to each carcass trait. It is believed that it can be used as basic data.
Birth weight, Carcass trait, Genetic parameters, Identification, Maternal permanent environmental effect