Table 3.

The QTL mapping results for the lengths of limb bones and fBMD

SSCa	Position (cM)	Traitb	F Valuec	Origind	ADD ± S.E.e	DOM ± S.E.e	IMP ± S.E.e	CI95f	Var%g	Nominal P
1	46	FL	4.6*	Erhualian	-0.08 ± 0.03	-0.10 ± 0.04	ns	34–152	1.1	3.3E-03
	58	SL	5.8*	Duroc	ns	-0.24 ± 0.06	ns	0–113	1.5	6.7E-04
	146	HL	6.4*	Erhualian	-0.12 ± 0.03	ns	ns	27–153	1.9	2.6E-04
	147	TL	9.6***	Erhualian	-0.16 ± 0.03	ns	ns	36–160	1.0	3.2E-06
	157	UL	9.0***	Erhualian	-0.14 ± 0.03	-0.11 ± 0.05	ns	146–160	2.4	6.8E-06
2	17	SL	23.7***	Duroc	0.13 ± 0.04	ns	0.27 ± 0.04	0–23	5.4	9.7E-15
	78	HL	4.7*	Duroc	ns	ns	-0.11 ± 0.03	0–144	1.0	3.0E-03
3	40	FL	4.9*	Duroc	ns	-0.24 ± 0.07	ns	31–128	1.5	2.4E-03
	114	SL	7.3**	Erhualian	-0.17 ± 0.04	ns	ns	31–123	1.0	8.3E-05
4	58	HL	11.2***	Duroc	0.18 ± 0.03	ns	ns	46–85	1.5	3.2E-07
	58	UL	20.5***	Duroc	0.26 ± 0.03	ns	ns	54–75	2.8	7.3E-13
	68	FL	5.5*	Duroc	0.10 ± 0.03	ns	ns	3–109	4.5	9.2E-04
	98	SL	7.3**	Duroc	0.16 ± 0.04	ns	ns	0–110	1.3	7.8E-05
	127	fBMD	4.9*	Erhualian	-0.04 ± 0.02	-0.07 ± 0.03	ns	0–139	10.3	3.4E-03
5	54	SL	5.4*	Erhualian	-0.13 ± 0.04	ns	ns	1–105	1.0	1.1E-03
	64	UL	5.6*	Erhualian	-0.11 ± 0.03	ns	ns	8–112	1.1	7.8E-04
7	57	FL	50.3***	Erhualian	-0.41 ± 0.03	ns	ns	56–59	16.5	5.6E-30
	57	SL	70.4***	Erhualian	-0.59 ± 0.04	ns	-0.06 ± 0.03	56–60	9.5	9.3E-41
	58	HL	35.6***	Erhualian	-0.34 ± 0.03	ns	ns	55–59	19.9	1.1E-21
	58	TL	26.5***	Erhualian	-0.29 ± 0.03	ns	ns	54–59	13.5	2.1E-16
	58	UL	87.1***	Erhualian	-0.55 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	ns	57–60	7.0	2.9E-49
10	41	FL	5.9*	Duroc	0.12 ± 0.03	ns	ns	0–108	1.3	5.8E-04
11	106	fBMD	6.5*	Erhualian	-0.06 ± 0.02	ns	ns	36–106	14.7	4.9E-04
13	67	TL	10.9***	Duroc	0.16 ± 0.03	ns	ns	31–98	2.3	5.3E-07
	72	SL	10.6***	Duroc	0.19 ± 0.03	ns	ns	40–93	4.0	7.5E-07
	72	UL	18.3***	Duroc	0.22 ± 0.03	ns	-0.06 ± 0.03	60–96	2.7	1.7E-11
14	36	UL	6.1*	Duroc	0.11 ± 0.03	ns	0.07 ± 0.03	28–102	1.8	4.2E-04
	51	HL	4.6*	Duroc	0.12 ± 0.03	ns	ns	18–102	1.0	3.3E-03
	88	SL	8.4***	Duroc	0.16 ± 0.04	ns	-0.12 ± 0.04	52–97	1.2	1.7E-05
15	44	TL	6.4*	Erhualian	-0.14 ± 0.03	ns	ns	24–117	2.0	2.8E-04
	63	HL	8.1**	Erhualian	-0.14 ± 0.03	ns	ns	30–74	1.5	2.4E-05
	56	FL	4.7*	Erhualian	-0.10 ± 0.03	ns	ns	7–114	1.0	3.1E-03
X	50	SL	11.4***	Duroc	0.17 ± 0.04	ns	-0.14 ± 0.04	35–57	2.5	2.4E-07
	51	FL	10.3***	Duroc	0.13 ± 0.03	ns	-0.09± 0.03	48–60	4.5	1.1E-06
	52	HL	17.3***	Duroc	0.23 ± 0.03	ns	ns	43–59	2.4	6.5E-11
	52	UL	11.5***	Duroc	0.26 ± 0.05	ns	ns	45–60	2.6	2.2E-07
	53	TL	22.7***	Duroc	0.26 ± 0.03	ns	0.08 ± 0.03	24–84	5.9	3.6E-14

^a Pig chromosome; ^b For abbreviations see Table 1; ^c Significance levels: * suggestive significant level, **5% genome-wide significant level, ***1% genome-wide significant level.; ^d Origin of favorable allele respect to the founder breed; ^e ns, insignificant ADD, DOM and IMP. ^f The 95% confidence interval;^g Percentage of phenotype variance explained by the QTL.