Table 4.

Mean Fst and observed homozygosity across the genome and within QTL confidence intervals.

	Confidence interval				Homozygosity (Mean ± SD)
Region	No. markers	Chr	Position (Mb)	Fst ± SD	HWS	LWS
Genome	4777	-	-	0.33 ± 0.29	0.74 ± 0.24	0.75 ± 0.22
All QTL	224	-	-	0.38 ± 0.33	0.75 ± 0.24	0.81 ± 0.22
Growth1	17	1	171.9 – 176.0	0.51 ± 0.38	0.76 ± 0.21	0.98 ± 0.05
Growth6_7a	93	4	5.1 – 35.0	0.40 ± 0.35	0.78 ± 0.24	0.82 ± 0.21
Growth9	47	7	21.8 – 33.3	0.45 ± 0.29	0.79 ± 0.24	0.71 ± 0.28
Growth12	67	20	6.0 – 12.0	0.29 ± 0.30	0.67 ± 0.23	0.86 ± 0.16

^a Growth6 and Growth7 were combined in the analysis as their confidence intervals based on the one-LOD drop method overlapped.

Only intervals with significant QTL for later growth (14 – 70 days) were considered.