Table 3.

Epistatic QTL effects, locations and phenotypic variance explained for body composition traits in a chicken line divergently selected for low or high growth

Chromosome	Interacting QTL positions	2LogBF	Epistatic Effect	Variance explained by Epistatic QTL
Breast meat yield
2/5	331.6/86.8	9.49	165.00	3.92
2/7	256.0/101.0	10.54	251.00	3.34
5/7	132.5/89.0	13.36	148.00	5.57
7/7	62.3/91.0	14.12	113.10	10.01
11/11	6.2/16.5	9.31	129.50	4.54
Pectoralis major weight
2/3	315.0/70.4	8.34	209.70	3.39
2/5	329.0/82.6	9.30	157.20	4.70
2/7	307.0/133.0	9.95	276.20	3.98
5/7	107.7/72.9	12.78	157.00	6.58
7/7	39.6/77.0	13.95	100.30	7.28
Pectoralis major yield
2/2	284.0/313.0	6.80	205.00	3.17
2/5	292.4/63.6	8.63	143.00	3.32
5/7	20.1/68.6	13.92	81.00	8.29
5/9	30.4/40.1	12.25	36.00	2.81
7/7	39.6/68.6	12.93	103.00	8.16
Pectoralis minor weight
2/5	290.3/14.0	20.16	109.20	7.63
2/11	290.3/41.0	16.88	60.26	8.52
5/11	69.9/14.4	17.49	35.80	4.09
10/17	42.0/6.3	15.84	28.40	3.20
11/17	26.8/21.0	17.75	21.05	4.98
Pectoralis minor yield
2/4	294.5/14.0	15.47	119.59	7.60
2/5	288.2/2.0	20.32	94.30	7.70
2/17	294.5/21.0	19.82	123.23	6.69
5/11	10.0/18.5	17.88	26.77	2.85
11/17	22.6/21.0	18.06	16.96	5.69
Thigh + drumstick weight
1/1	40.9/436.7	13.12	264.50	6.80
1/5	42.9/65.7	12.70	135.00	6.69
1/27	106.0/0.0	17.10	161.60	8.11
3/5	266.7/48.9	12.89	144.10	3.55
7/27	151.0/0.0	19.98	68.10	3.94
Thigh + drumstick yield
1/1	47.0/416.4	13.57	264.21	6.73
1/7	128.0/6.4	15.67	127.74	5.64
1/27	104.0/0.0	17.52	101.12	8.09
2/7	91.0/6.4	10.33	127.74	4.68
10/27	53.0/0.0	16.74	9.52	4.23
Fat weight
1/1	196.0/529.2	14.16	522.00	10.62
1/11	210.2/39.0	9.48	469.00	7.80
1/15	206.0/20.5	14.1	561.50	12.26
1/18	194.0/10.6	6.18	511.40	16.60
2/18	286.1/14.9	6.84	492.30	10.81
Fat yield
1/2	229.0/284.0	16.37	98.97	17.11
2/2	192.0/288.0	14.87	89.41	17.43
2/6	292.4/73.0	17.49	82.27	24.73
2/27	292.4/0.0	20.15	1.68	12.06
5/6	20.1/75.0	16.17	49.50	11.01