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Table 1 Summarizing results of the multivariable analysis of BNP using a sire-dam model ( n  = 411)

From: Bovine Neonatal Pancytopenia is a heritable trait of the dam rather than the calf and correlates with the magnitude of vaccine induced maternal alloantibodies not the MHC haplotype

 

Heritability estimate (SE)

  

Sire

0.00 (0.00)

   

Dam

0.19 (0.08)

   

Variable

Category ( n )

β (SE)

Odds ratio

Wald test P -value

Lactation number

1 (67)

Referent

1

0.021

 

2 (106)

0.49 (0.57)

1.63

 
 

3 (96)

1.10 (0.60)

3.00

 
 

4 (70)

0.77 (0.63)

2.17

 
 

5 ≥ (72)

−0.14 (0.68)

0.87

 

Number of Pregsure© BVD vaccinations

≤2 (118)

Referent

1

0.014

 

3 (134)

0.35 (0.42)

1.42

 
 

4 ≥ (159)

1.17 (0.45)

3.21

 

Time since last Pregsure© BVD vaccination

Per month

0.03 (0.02)

1.03

0.214

  1. The data included 102 BNP and 309 non-BNP dam-calf combinations.