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Turkish Van

origin: Turkey · 8 figures in the corpus · Q42724

Every figure below carries this breed's name or id in its source study -- grouped by what it measures, not ranked. A breed appearing under a study here does not mean every other breed was tested and came back negative; it means this is what has a named source so far. See each figure's own page for its caveats.

Category (FIFe)

1 FIFe category (1-4, coat/morphology grouping) verified

Turkish Van (TUV): FIFe Category 1

  • Category is a coat/morphology grouping FIFe itself uses, not a ranking (1=lowest number, 4=highest, no ordinal meaning).

Temperament

0.51 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of activity level

  • 95% HPD interval 0.36-0.68.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.5 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of contact to people

  • 95% HPD interval 0.32-0.68.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.53 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of aggression to strangers

  • 95% HPD interval 0.37-0.68.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.51 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of aggression to family members

  • 95% HPD interval 0.36-0.67.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.53 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of aggression to other cats

  • 95% HPD interval 0.34-0.73.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.43 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of shyness towards novel objects

  • 95% HPD interval 0.23-0.63.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.
0.47 narrow-sense heritability (h^2, 0-1) verified

Turkish Van: heritability of shyness towards strangers

  • 95% HPD interval 0.28-0.71.
  • Estimated only for the three breeds with sufficient within-breed relatedness data (Ragdoll, Maine Coon, Turkish Van); not available for other breeds.