Table 1.

Candidate SNP markers

HLA Region	r2 (DR)a	Flanking Locus D	q-arm
denseSNP6_3241b	0.608	denseSNP6_3915	denseSNP6_11568	denseSNP6_15916
denseSNP6_3426c	0.449	denseSNP6_3916	denseSNP6_11611	denseSNP6_11656
denseSNP6_3271	0.404	denseSNP6_3917	denseSNP6_11621	denseSNP6_15886
denseSNP6_3436c	0.030	denseSNP6_3918	denseSNP6_15881	denseSNP6_11596
denseSNP6_3281	0.020		denseSNP6_15976	denseSNP6_15961
denseSNP6_3236	0.006		denseSNP6_15921
denseSNP6_3261b	0.003		denseSNP6_16891
denseSNP6_3251	0.003		denseSNP6_11646
denseSNP6_3476c	0.001		denseSNP6_11666
denseSNP6_3201c	0.001		denseSNP6_11616

^aThe diallelic r² with DR C allele.

^bMarginally significant at the study-wide level in over 50% of replicates.

^cMarginally significant at the genome-wide level in over 50% of the replicates.