Table 3.

The top genetic markers associated with the microbiota genera (i.e., Domain: Bacteria, Phylum: Actinobacteria, Class: Coriobacteriia, Order: Coriobacteriales, Family: Coriobacteriaceae) explained the most variance in the variation of methane emission.

Chromosome	Position	Allele 1	Allele 2	Frequency	Effect size	Standard error	p value
2	34537333	A	G	0.37	0.23	0.06	2.4e−4
3	29880508	A	G	0.22	0.29	0.07	1.2e−4
9	51243021	G	A	0.36	−0.24	0.06	1.6e−4
9	53197668	G	A	0.43	−0.23	0.06	2.2e−4
14	66907798	G	A	0.22	−0.29	0.07	1.3e−4
16	64516788	G	A	0.01	0.95	0.260	2.5e−4
17	57109193	A	G	0.38	0.27	0.07	6.1e−5
17	74925889	A	G	0.40	0.25	0.07	1.7e−4
25	37693781	A	G	0.41	−0.23	0.06	2.5e−4
25	39844749	A	G	0.21	−0.28	0.08	2.5e−4

The effect sizes of SNP are in one unit of natural log transformed and standardized microbiota OTU data.