Table 10.

QTL regions associated with growth and carcass traits and the percentage of the total genetic variance explained

Chr	Region type	Region start (bp)1)	Region end (bp)2)	Region size (bp)	Marker count	Region −log10P	Most significant SNP
							SNP	%σ2p3)
Weaning wight (kg)
4	add	61,386,842	61,908,479	521,637	12	2.98	ARS-BFGL-NGS-5482	4.75
5	add	4,528,722	4,963,140	434,418	11	2.70	BTA-29483-no-rs	4.70
11	add	82,506,706	82,998,032	491,326	11	2.21	ARS-BFGL-BAC-11115	4.07
12	add	54,600,867	54,690,096	89,229	4	2.17	Hapmap26937-BTA-127685	4.00
20	add+dom	42,739,808	42,872,996	133,188	4	2.94	ARS-BFGL-NGS-39382	4.33
Yearling weight (kg)
11	add+dom	60,503,780	60,747,467	243,687	5	2.25	BFGL-NGS-118165	5.67
11	add	82,715,271	82,998,032	282,761	7	2.07	ARS-BFGL-BAC-11115	4.39
20	add+dom	42,739,808	42,819,855	80,047	3	2.17	ARS-BFGL-BAC-33668	4.41
26	add	14,341,149	14,828,964	487,815	9	2.07	Hapmap48951-BTA-94291	4.16
Carcass weight (kg)
14	add	19,654,754	19,910,197	255,443	5	2.12	Hapmap41993-BTA-86407	2.96
14	add	24,100,495	25,707,512	1,607,017	36	10.65	BTB-01143580	6.25
14	add+dom	28,090,849	28,604,028	513,179	11	2.07	BTB-00562658	3.42
14	add	36,023,989	36,095,273	71,284	3	2.25	BTB-01640837	2.61
Backfat thickness (cm)
5	add	37,930,354	38,268,770	338,416	6	2.09	BFGL-NGS-119673	3.25
5	add	75,805,133	76,714,910	909,777	14	4.73	ARS-BFGL-NGS-8401	4.45
6	add+dom	454,623	1,496,086	1,041,463	21	5	BTB-01744782	5.34
9	add	10,080,000	11,411,851	1,331,851	13	3.31	BTA-28590-no-rs	4.70
14	add+dom	28,344,924	28,938,888	593,694	12	2.61	Hapmap49130-BTA-34437	4.91
16	add	31,108,917	36,611,548	502,631	11	2.19	Hapmap42533-BTA-38667	3.78
16	add	39,293,150	40,694,131	1,324,364	18	5.83	BTB-00640968	5.76
16	add+dom	53,663,332	53,952,476	289,144	6	2.05	ARS-BFGL-NGS-17466	3.49
17	add+dom	74,292,265	74,738,486	446,221	6	2.34	ARS-BFGL-NGS-41599	3.13
23	add	11,627,828	12,207,677	579,849	9	2.23	ARS-BFGL-BAC-30052	4.71
29	add+dom	35,829,053	36,646,213	817,160	12	3.38	ARS-BFGL-NGS-23717	4
Longissimus dorsi muscle area(cm2)
3	add+dom	84,750,518	85,176,770	426,252	11	2.71	BTA-99819-no-rs	2.97
7	add+dom	107,689,830	107,950,229	260,399	7	2.10	Hapmap48901-BTA-80577	2.19
20	add	4,040,334	4,745,147	704,813	17	3.92	ARS-BFGL-NGS-25982	3.65
20	add	8,115,195	8,810,833	695,638	13	3.12	Hapmap53674-rs29025319	5.52
20	add	75,346,433	75,530,515	184,082	4	2.54	BFGL-NGS-112221	3.82
28	add+dom	34,473,261	35,155,406	649,145	11	2.13	ARS-BFGL-NGS-94161	10.94
Marbling score (1–9)
13	add	54,474,756	54,548,692	73,936	3	2.24	ARS-BFGL-NGS-73404	4.65
16	add	51,370,098	51,470,017	99,919	5	2.03	Hapmap26379-BTA-130999	4.24
18	dom	32,990,778	33,279,345	288,567	9	2.05	ARS-BFGL-NGS-107813	3.65

QTL, quantitative trait locus; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism.

^1),2)SNP marker annotations and their positions were based on the bovine reference genome (btau4.0).

³⁾Proportion of phenotypic variance due to the SNPs.