Initial egg production (IEP), egg weight (EW) and body weight (BW) of four laying hen lines
were studied. A total of 74044 individuals from six selected generations were included in the analysis. The data (after Box-Cox transformation) were used to estimate direct and maternal additive
genetic variances as well as cytoplasmic variances. Estimation of variance components was performed by the derivative-free REML programs of Meyer (1989). The largest genetic variance component estimates were obtained for IEP. However, the contributions of variances from both maternal
(indirect) and cytoplasmic effects to phenotypic variance were very small for all analyzed traits. It
was concluded that the maternal and cytoplasmic effects studied may be omitted in laying hen genetic evaluation.
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