AIC	Akaike’s Information Criterion
AS-PCR	Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction
BSA	Bulked segregant analysis
EBV	Estimated breeding value
ED	Euclidean distance
ELFN1	Extracellular leucine-rich repeat and fibronectin type III domain containing 1 gene
FDR	False discovery rate
GATK	Genome analysis toolkit
GC (%)	The percentage of G and C bases in the total bases in the sequencing results
GWASs	Genome-wide association studies
HMX1	H6 family homeobox 1 gene
LRRFIP1	LRR binding FLII interacting protein 1 gene
MW	Marketing weight (body weight at nine weeks of age)
P1	First population
P2	Second population
PDGFD	Platelet-derived growth factor D gene
PPP2R2C	Protein phosphatase 2 regulatory subunit B γ gene
Q30 (%)	The percentage of bases with a sequencing quality value greater than or equal to 30
SAMtools	Sequence alignment/map format
SLAF-seq	Specific locus amplified fragment sequencing
SNPs	Single nucleotide polymorphisms
SOAP	Short oligonucleotide alignment program
SSCP	Single-strand conformation polymorphism
ti/tv	Transition/transversion ratio
UCHL1	Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 gene