Table 1.

Genes identified, chromosome, name of significant SNPs within QTL regions, P value, minor allele frequency (MAF), and size of QTL in bp

Chra	Gene name	SNP name	P value (FDR = 1 %)	MAF	QTL size (bp)
1	KALRN	BovineHD0100019801	9.44 × 10−8	0.33	12,165
4	DPP6	BovineHD0400033997	7.42 × 10−6	0.45	32,568
		BovineHD0400033998	7.42 × 10−6	0.45
10	AP3B1	BovineHD1000002985	2.23 × 10−6	0.24	13,726
		BovineHD1000002982	2.43 × 10−6	0.24
		BovineHD1000030516	3.10 × 10−6	0.25
23	FKBP5	Hapmap50596-BTA-121389	4.09 × 10−6	0.13	74,693

QTL regions identified in the single-SNP regression analysis applied to GWAS; the top 100 SNPs identified as significant are in Additional file 1: Table S1

^aChromosome number