Figure 3.—

Preservation of local (a) and distal (b) eQTL between females and males. The percentage of eQTL that replicated between sexes at various LOD thresholds is depicted in adipose, brain, liver, and muscle tissue. The eQTL at LOD > 2.7, 4.3, and 6 of one sex were screened for detection at LOD > 2.7 in the opposite sex. The percentage indicates the degree of replication of eQTL at LOD > 4.3 in females that overlap in males at LOD > 2.7 over the total number of eQTL at LOD > 4.3 detected in females and vice versa. For example, at LOD > 6, female adipose in cross I shows >80% of the local eQTL preserved in the male adipose cross I group.