Table 6.

Evidence for QTL significant at the 5% chromosome-wide level for traits related to muscularity and meat quality by chromosome obtained by half-sib analysis. Estimated significance levels (F-value), position, % of F2 variance explained by each QTL, and gene effects.

Trait	SSC	Position [cM]	F-Value	% Variance
pH1ML	1	99	3.5*	2.1
FOM	2	20	6.6****	3.8
MAML	2	20	10.0****	5.8
FOM_M	2	20	2.7*	1.6
C1ML	2	24	3.8**	1.8
MCOpto	3	0	7.6****	5.6
pH1ML	3	24	3.0*	1.7
pH1ML	4	12	3.3*	1.9
MAML	4	71	3.2*	1.9
FOM	4	73	5.7****	3.3
MCOpto	5	9	6.6***	4.9
FOM	6	0	4.7***	2.7
C24ML	6	24	4.6*	2.7
MAML	6	32	5.4****	3.1
MCOpto	6	170	4.5*	3.3
pH1ML	8	128	3.3*	2.0
MCOpto	10	128	2.9*	1.7
C24ML	11	36	3.6*	2.1
pH1ML	11	72	3.0*	1.7
pH24ML	13	0	3.4*	2.0
MCOpto	13	43	8.0****	5.9
FOM_M	14	56	2.7*	1.6
C24ML	14	120	3.9*	2.2
pH24ML	15	48	5.4***	3.1
C1ML	15	88	3.0*	1.4
FOM	16	0	5.2****	3.0
FOM_M	16	8	3.8**	2.2
C1ML	16	20	4.5***	2.3
MCOpto	16	42	4.5*	3.3
MCOpto	17	0	3.8*	2.8
C24ML	17	0	5.2***	3.0
FOM	17	12	2.7*	1.6
pH1ML	17	68	3.1*	1.8
FOM	18	0	3.1*	1.8

*: significant at the 5% chromosome-wide level, **: significant at the 1% chromosome-wide level, ***: significant at the 5% genome-wide level, ****: significant at the 1% genome-wide level

¹the fraction of phenotypic variance in the F2 explained by a QTL; calculated as the proportion of residual variance of the statistical models with and without the QTL effect