Figure 6.

(A–C) The distributions of QTL with LOD scores >3 and the top ${\gamma }_{n,0.05}$ profiles for the bins [15,60], [14,242] and [3,89.5] (the first marker on chromosome 3 starting at the position of 9.5 cM) for the yeast dataset. The upper panels display the distributions of LOD scores, and the bottom panels show the top ${\gamma }_{n,0.05}$ profiles. (A) The top ${\gamma }_{n,0.05}$ profile displays that the n values have an increase trend within the narrow range from 1 to 5 over the 3- to 8-LOD thresholds, showing that the bin [15,60] is a major hotspot containing QTL with balanced LOD scores. (B) The top ${\gamma }_{n,0.05}$ profile displays a flat pattern with the values of n varying within the range of from 1 to 3 showing that the bin [14,242] is also a major hotspot containing the QTL with balanced LOD scores. (C) The top ${\gamma }_{n,0.05}$ profile has a decreasing trend over the 3- to 8-LOD thresholds, showing that the bin [3,89.5] is also a major hotspot containing relatively more QTL with $\ge 6$ LOD scores. The number in the bracket is the EQF value of the bin.