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. 2019 Apr 25;14(4):e0215913. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215913

Table 3. Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) shared by at least 33 percent of all individuals (N = 942) across four warmblood horse breeds with candidate genes for positive selection.

Chr position (bp) length of ROH (bp) SNPs in ROH samples (%) sharing the entire ROH annotated genes in ROH candidate genes QTL trait (number of QTL) 1 [47]
1 684,531–1,346,011 661,480 20 33 5  
21,937,435–22,763,212 825,777 20 33 -
2 96,475,507–97,254,688 779,181 16 33 1  
100,347,967–100,961,025 613,058 19 35 5
3 19,390,495–20,068,977 678,482 20 35 14  
22,774,232–23,723,805 949,573 24 34 19
  39,317,467–40,650,253 1,332,786 20 34 24   white2 (1), tympany3 (6)
75,797,341–76,393,636 596,295 19 34 13 THEGL white (1),
height4 (2)
  118,524,879–119,456,949 932,070 38 37 18 MYL5
4 15,120,680–17,415,564 2,294,884 40 35 24 IGFBP1, IGFBP3
  19,079,166–20,235,933 1,156,767 19 40 10 SPATA48, ZPBP
52,587,338–53,148,501 561,163 22 36 4
5 41,546,213–42,335,441 789,228 24 33 41
55,293,804–56,274,553 980,749 28 34 12 WNT2B
6 29,004,794–30,308,246 1,303,452 28 34 15 WNT5B cannon 5(1)
34,084,026–35,230,778 1,146,752 25 35 51
  41,218,272–42,713,648 1,495,376 25 37 18  
7 36,663,831–37,338,232 674,401 23 33 6
  39,405,488–41,489,510 2,084,022 47 34 7  
8 22,113,249–23,719,695 1,606,446 32 34 43 height (1)
  36,329,323–37,420,192 1,090,869 20 34 12   height (4)
9 43,718,150–44,540,142 821,992 20 38 13
11 21,692,258–22,655,280 963,022 19 33 35 KRT complex, IGFBP4, ZPBP2 hair 6(3),
coat7 (1),
24,038,863–24,990,015 951,152 16 38 27 IGF2BP1
HOXB complex
hair (1)
  26,909,643–27,819,093 909,450 33 37 4  
32,322,500–33,580,784 1,258,284 29 35 39 TEX14 insect8 (2)
15 44,286,531–45,105,390 818,859 16 38 16  
67,528,191–68,378,301 850,110 18 37 7
17 20,690,428–22,444,884 1,754,456 28 33 22   racing 9 (1)
18 48,042,468–49,758,616 1,716,148 39 36 23 NOSTRIN, MYO3B racing (1)
  58,962,761–59,847,420 884,659 22 34 8   weight10 (1)
22 4,359,148–4,944,734 585,586 15 35 5 RALGAPA2 CFAP61
  15,520,818–16,561,219 1,040,401 18 36 6 BMP2
26,103,882–26,914,845 810,963 18 34 20 GDF5, SPAG4,
25 26,318,531–26,942,120 623,589 18 43 33 *
28 14,158,917–15,080,406 921,489 19 34 7 KITLG
  45,594,055–46,121,975 527,920 17 34 29  

* suspected copy number variation

1 selection signature overlaps with QTL position, data downloaded from AnimalGenome.ORG animal QTL database (accessed 4 February 2019)

2 white markings

3 guttural pouch tympany

4 height of withers

5 cannon bone circumference

6 hair density

7 coat texture

8 insect bite hypersensitivity

9 racing ability

10 body weight