Table 4.

The candidate genes reported being associated with BMD in humans

Gene symbol	Gene name	The adjacent SNP	Distance,1 bp	Reference
CNR2	Cannabinoid receptor 2	WU_10.2_6_75058017	−569,848	(Karsak et al., 2009; Sophocleous et al., 2014, 2017; Woo et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2015)
ZBTB40	Zinc finger and BTB domain containing 40	WU_10.2_6_75058017	−637,324	(Richards et al., 2008; Rivadeneira et al., 2009; Chao et al., 2012)
Lin28a	Lin-28 homolog A	ASGA0028695	−622,116	(Shyh-Chang et al., 2013)

¹Distance indicates the distance between the significant SNP and the genes; a positive number suggests the gene is located upstream of the SNP.