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Table 3 Summary of results of Fisher’s exact tests of the effects of low genome-wide heterozygosity (as a two-level factor) on the likelihood of death and the likelihood of clinical illness for the sub-populations of non-introgressed and introgressed calves

From: Genetic susceptibility to infectious disease in East African Shorthorn Zebu: a genome-wide analysis of the effect of heterozygosity and exotic introgression

Phenotypes

Dead vs healthy calves

Ill vs healthy calves

Subpopulation

OR

95% CI

P-value

OR

95% CI

P-value

Non-introgressed

10.8

3.0-48.1

< 0.001

3.5

1.05-15.1

0.026

Introgressed

5.3

0.24-321

0.213

2.72

0.31-129

0.671

  1. Cut-offs for high/low heterozygosity and introgressed/non-introgressed are defined in Methods. OR = odds ratio. CI = confidence interval. P-values in bold type are statistically significant.