Table 3.

Number of variants and QTL detected in the GWAS and meta-analysis for fat and protein percentage

Analysis	Fat %				prot %
	nS	FDR	nQ	nS/nQ	nS	FDR	nQ	nS/nQ
AUSB	8871	1.7 × 10−5	56	158	13,955	1.1 × 10−5	52	268
AUSC	9502	1.6 × 10−5	74	128	13,475	1.1 × 10−5	49	275
HOLF	10,124	1.4 × 10−5	22	460	11,033	1.3 × 10−5	35	315
MON	3971	3.6 × 10−5	13	305	5383	2.7 × 10−5	19	283
NOR	2981	4.7 × 10−5	11	271	3379	4.1 × 10−5	16	211
NR	4304	3.0 × 10−5	30	143	6231	2.1 × 10−5	37	168
HOLG	9244	1.6 × 10−5	20	462	10,102	1.5 × 10−5	38	266
BRAU	2483	6.4 × 10−5	13	191	2117	7.5 × 10−5	9	235
FLCK	9492	1.8 × 10−5	20	475	5654	3.0 × 10−5	33	171
GWAS	31,559	–	124	255	42,518	–	104	409
META	27,820	9.2 × 10−6	138	202	44,095	5.8 × 10−6	176	251

fat %: fat percentage; prot %: protein percentage; nS: number of significant variants; FDR: false discovery rate; nQ: number of QTL; nS/nQ: number of significant variants per QTL; AUSB: Australian bull dataset; AUSC: Australian cow dataset; HOLF: French Holstein; MON: Montbéliarde; NOR: Normande; NR: Norwegian Red; HOLG: German Holstein; BRAU: Braunvieh; FLCK: Fleckvieh; GWAS: non-overlapping significant variants select in any of the 9 GWAS; META: meta-analysis