| AFW | Abdominal fat weight |
| AFP | Abdominal fat percentage |
| ECW | Eviscerated carcass weight |
| IMF | Intramuscular fat |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| LMM | Linear mixed model |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| SNP | Single nucleotide polymorphism |
| FST | Fixation indices |
| Heterozygosity | π |
| WGCNA | RNA-seq and weighted gene correlation network analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |