Table 1.

QTL detected for feed efficiency and feed consumption

Chr	Traita	Position (cM)	CIb	Flanking markers of CI		Level of significance		QTL effectd (NFe)
						Chr-wide	Genome-widec
1	FI9_23	457.0	453.0–469.0	Gga_rs13986943	Gga_rs15546764	0.003	0.050	0.383 (2)Fg
	FI14_17	460.0	456.1–476.5	Gga_rs13988066	Gga_rs14936549	0.050	NS	0.359 (2)F
	FI20_23	464.0	458.0–473.0	GgaluGA060547	Gga_rs10729419	0.001	0.010	0.359 (2)
	FIDM9_23	464.0	453.0–472.0	Gga_rs13986943	Gga_rs15548184	0.001	0.010	0.276 (4)
	FI17_20	467.0	455.0–470.0	Gga_rs13987585	GGaluGA062319	0.001	0.010	0.252 (6)
3	RFI17_20	141.0	127.0–159.0	Gga_rs16276740	Gga_rs14369065	0.044	NS	0.242 (4)
	FI14_17	230.0	222.0–234.0	GGaluGA233748	GGaluGA235233	0.029	NS	0.210 (5)F
10	RFI14_17	89.0	85.0–90.0	Gga_rs10723404	Gga_rs13704690	0.035	NS	0.226 (4)F
11	FI9_23	18.0	3.0–28.0	GGaluGA074015	Gga_rs14022155	0.035	NS	0.175 (5)
	FI17_20	27.0	22.0–49.0	Gga_rs14020873	Gga_rs15620835	0.029	NS	0.240 (3)
	FIDM9_23	49.0	35.0–54.0	Gga_rs14697690	Gga_rs16740226	0.037	NS	0.191 (4)
13	FCR20_23	52.5	50.0–60.0	GGaluGA097117	Gga_rs15712088	0.030	NS	0.256 (3)
	FCR17_20	53.5	48.0–59.0	Gga_rs1999041	Gga_rs14065910	0.003	0.130	0.303 (3)
16	FIS	0.0f	–	Gga_rs16057130	Gga_rs15788030	0.032	NS	0.210 (4)
19	FI20_23	0.0f	0.0–6.3	Gga_rs16076471	Gga_rs14116110	0.005	NS	0.202 (6)F
	FIDM9_23	0.0f.	0.0–12.5	Gga_rs16076471	GGaluGA125050	0.033	NS	0.243 (3)F
	RFI9_14	5.0	0.0–10.1	Gga_rs16076471	Gga_rs15838137	0.050	NS	0.181 (5)F
	FI9_14	27.0	17.9–33.3	Gga_rs14118744	Gga_rs14121640	0.015	NS	0.227 (4)
	FI9_23	29.0	21.8–36.4	GGaluGA126160	GGaluGA127728	0.003	NS	0.190 (6)
24	FCRDM9_23	9.0	0.0–20.7	Gga_rs15208685	Gga_rs15217571	0.003	NS	0.264 (4)
	FCR9_23	9.0	0.0–20.5	Gga_rs15208685	Gga_rs15217571	0.003	NS	0.338 (3)
26	FCR9_14	6.0	0.0–21.6	Gga_rs14710236	Gga_rs13606082	0.013	NS	0.388 (2)F
27	FCR9_14	0.0f	0.0–11.7	Gga_rs16205037	Gga_r16207282	0.049	NS	0.195 (4)
LGE22	FIS	2.0	0.0–2.0	GGaluGA344683	Gga_rs13742310	0.040	NS	0.331 (2)
Zf	FCRDM9_23	8.5	0.0–14.8	Gga_rs15994240	Gga_rs15249807	0.008	0.110	2.197 (2)F
Zm	FCR9_14	14.5	0.0–19.2	Gga_rs15994240	Gga_rs14689442	0.049	NS	0.877 (3)
Zf	FIDM9_23	16.5	8.6–18.8	GGaluGA346525	Gga_rs14689342	0.009	0.120	1.192 (4)
Zf	RFI14_17	21.5	6.5–22.6	Gga_rs14067631	Gga_rs14783328	0.001	0.020	0.967 (4)
Zf	FI14_17	140.5	113.8–160.5	Gga_rs16110590	Gga_rs14769351	0.014	NS	0.774 (5)

^aFIX_Y: feed intake between X and Y days; FIDMX_Y: dry matter feed intake between X and Y days; FCRX_Y: feed conversion ratio between X and Y days; FCRDMX_Y: feed conversion ratio between X and Y days on a dry matter basis

^b1-LOD-drop off confidence interval (lower and upper boundaries, cM)

^cNS: P > 0.150 at the genome wide level

^dQTL effect as a proportion of the phenotypic standard deviation of trait

^eNumber of F1 sire families heterozygous for the QTL (P < 0.05, Student test)

^fQTL located at the telomere

^gF: QTL fixed in F1 sire families in which it is significant