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Table 3 Significant QTL pairs in the two-dimensional epistatic scan in the indigenous × commercial F2 population

From: Genetic dissection of growth traits in a Chinese indigenous × commercial broiler chicken cross

Trait

QTL11

 

QTL22

 

F value3

Var%4

Chr1

Pos1(cM)

Chr2

Pos2(cM)

BW6

4

55

7

100

9.8*

6.8%

GR 4–8

6

40

25

60

9.5*

6.5%

1

300

5

120

8.8+

6.1%

FCR 6–8

3

215

26

40

11.1*

8.1%

FCR 8–10

20

10

22

40

9.4*

6.4%

  1. 1,2 The first1 and second2 QTL in the significant epistatic QTL pair and their chromosomal location in centimorgans (cM); 3 *5% genome-wide significance; +10% suggestive genome-wide significance.4 The percentage of the residual phenotypic variance explained by the epistatic QTL pair.
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