Table 1.

Principal QTL effect with LOD > 3 for grain yield in real maize data

QTL	Interval	d	Bin	a	d
1	umc1177/bnlg1178	0.30	1.00–1.01	0.00	0.71
19	bnlg1720/umc1737	2.65	1.10	−0.01	0.10
39	umc1042/ umc1560	2.06	2.07–2.08	0.00	0.12
72	bnlg105/umc1879	0.37	5.03	0.00	0.56
77	mmc0282/umc1524	1.01	5.05–5.06	0.18	−0.68
94	phi034-bnlg657	1.38	7.02	0.00	0.70
95	bnlg657-umc1112	1.52	7.02−7.03	0.00	0.84
120	umc1576-bnlg1716	0.17	10.02–10.03	0.00	−0.06

d Genetic distance from the first marker, a additive effect, d dominant effect