Table 3.

Functional annotations of variants included in the 59 QTL regions

Functional annotation	Number of variants	%
Intergenic	3081	41.7
Intronic	2972	40.2
Upstream	604	8.2
Downstream	584	7.9
3′ UTR	26	0.35
5′ UTR	10	0.14
Synonymous	65	0.88
Missense	51	0.69
Total	7393	100