Table 2.

Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) detected around the NCAPG‐LCORL locus in livestock

Species	Breeds	No. of animals	Associated traits	Freq. of the height‐increasing allele	Reference
Cattle	Japanese Black, Japanese Brown	>280 offspring × 5 half‐sib families	Carcass weight, longissimus muscle area, lower subcutaneous fat thickness	‐	Setoguchi et al. (2009)
	Japanese Black, F2 from Charolais and German Holstein	792 Japanese Black steers and 161 F2 bulls	Increase in body frame size at puberty	Japanease Black: 0.4; F2 bulls: 0.49	Setoguchi et al. (2011)
	Japanese Black	1156 steers	Carcass weight	0.2	Nishimura et al. (2012)
	F2 from Charolais and German Holstein	733 animals	Birth weight	Charolais: 0.9; German Holsteins: 0.2	Eberlein et al. (2009)
	F2 from Charolais and German Holstein	156 males	Increased plasma arginine level, average daily gain, lower percentage of perirenal and subcutaneous fat in carcass weight		Weikard et al. (2010)
	Crossbred	~2500 animals	Birth weight, weaning weight, yealing weight	‐	Snelling et al. (2010)
	Crossbred	400 animals (validation population)	Average feed intake, average daily gain, hot carcass weight, ribeye area, lower adjusted fat thickness	0.33	Lindholm‐Perry et al. (2011)
	Norwegian Red	2552 bulls	Daughter yield deviation for direct effect on dystocia	‐	Olsen et al. (2009)
	Piedmontese	323 bulls	Estimated breeding value for direct calving ease	‐	Bongiorni et al. (2012)
	US beef breeds	18 274 animals from 10 US beef breeds	Body weights, calving ease direct, weaning weight maternal	‐	Saatchi et al. (2014)
Horse	Franches‐Montagnes	1077 animals	Withers height, conformation of legs, ventral border of mandible, correctness of gait, expression of head	0.0845	Signer‐Hasler et al. (2012)
	German Warmblood	782 stallions	Withers height	0.65	Tetens et al. (2013)
	Hanoverian	214 animals	Height	0.55	Metzger et al. (2013)
	Thoroughbreds	282 affected and 268 controls	Height, laryngeal neuropathy	Affected: 0.259; Unaffected: 0.119	Boyko et al. (2014)
Pig	European domestic pig populations, European wild boars, Asian domestic pigs	418 animals from European domestic pig populations, 40 European wild boars, 21 Asian domestic pigs	Candidate selective sweep region overlapped with a major QTL for body length in an intercross between Large White and wild boar	‐	Rubin et al. (2012)
Dog	46 diverse breeds	509 animals	Highly differentiated region across breeds	‐	Vaysse et al. (2011)