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Table 3 Summary of factors influencing the reason for lamb deaths in ten sheep breeds in GB.

From: Associations between lamb survival and prion protein genotype: analysis of data for ten sheep breeds in Great Britain

 

factor†

breed

PrP genotype

sex

age at death

year of birth

Beulah Speckled Face

ns

ns

***

ns

Bluefaced Leicester

ns

ns

***

ns

Charollais

ns

ns

***

ns

Lleyn

ns

ns

***

ns

North Country Cheviot (Hill)

ns

ns

***

ns

North Country Cheviot (Park)

ns

ns

***

***

Poll Dorset

ns

ns

***

ns

Scottish Blackface

ns

*

***

**

Texel

ns

ns

***

*

Welsh Mountain

ns

ns

***

**

  1. † significance in final model or when deleted from the model: ns (P > 0.05); * (0.01 <P ≤ 0.05); ** (0.001 <P ≤ 0.01); *** (P ≤ 0.001)
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