QTLs associated with dry matter intake, metabolic mid-test weight, growth and feed efficiency have little overlap across 4 beef cattle studies

Table 2 Large-effect QTL associated with residual feed intake in 4 different beef populations

BTA_Mb¹	Population²	Start SNP	End SNP	Number of SNPs	Genetic variance (%)	Nominal P-value	Bonferroni corrected P-value	Lead-SNP	sPPI³
6_50	Angus	rs133728493	rs136948693	304	2.21	1.10E⁻⁶	2.95E⁻³	rs137524648	0.04
10_85	Sim × Ang	rs110164488	rs43652141	230	1.58	7.37E⁻⁶	1.97E⁻²	rs136969055	0.06
14_41	Sim × Ang	rs42509065	rs133984439	201	1.75	4.17E⁻⁶	1.12E⁻²	rs136041102	0.31
14_43	Cycle VII	rs109845775	rs110706635	12	1.95	2.26E⁻⁶	5.70E⁻³	rs41617069	0.70
15_82	Sim × Ang	rs110524424	rs42781637	380	2.40	6.78E⁻⁷	1.81E⁻³	rs41785720	0.05
18_22	Angus	rs41579995	rs132921208	292	1.60	6.88E⁻⁶	1.85E⁻²	rs109634056	0.07
18_37	Sim × Ang	rs110857287	rs43211307	241	1.35	1.74E⁻⁵	4.65E⁻²	rs137177006	0.03
19_54	Hereford	rs134654442	rs110630064	353	1.45	1.18E⁻⁵	3.17E⁻²	rs109988749	0.21
20_4	Hereford	rs134565601	rs43094976	299	1.57	7.64E⁻⁶	2.05E⁻²	rs133032375	0.05
25_7	Sim × Ang	rs110477162	rs110037478	289	1.45	1.18E⁻⁵	3.16E⁻²	rs137078861	0.04

¹Bovine chromosome and n^th 1-Mb window within the same chromosome starting at 0 Mb and based on the UMD3.1 assembly.
²Sim × Ang stands for Simmental × Angus. The Cycle VII population was genotyped with the BovineSNP50 assay while the other populations were genotyped with the BovineSNP50 and BovineHD assays and imputed to the BovineHD content using Beagle 4.0.
³sPPI: posterior probability of inclusion for the given lead-SNP.

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