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

Table 3 Large-effect QTL associated with feedlot dry matter intake in 4 different beef populations

BTA_Mb¹	Population	Start SNP	End SNP	Number of SNPs	Genetic variance (%)	Nominal P-value	Bonferroni corrected P-value	Lead-SNP	sPPI²
1_107	Angus	rs137640861	rs133218870	210	1.64	1.52E⁻⁵	4.08E⁻²	rs136742116	0.10
3_70	Hereford	rs134410518	rs136347800	195	4.33	7.23E⁻⁸	1.94E⁻⁴	rs109239108	0.14
7_0	Angus	rs134214229	rs133987755	219	2.78	9.14E⁻⁷	2.45E⁻³	rs134458731	0.49
7_23	Angus	rs133100477	rs42926834	261	10.39	2.97E⁻¹⁰	7.97E⁻⁷	rs133232710	0.44
21_13	Angus	rs109890770	rs137407067	277	1.75	1.09E⁻⁵	2.92E⁻²	rs134953219	0.31
X_115	Hereford	rs109289869	rs133784615	214	1.95	6.20E⁻⁶	1.66E⁻²	rs134244037	0.16

¹Bovine chromosome and n^th 1-Mb window within the same chromosome starting at 0 Mb and based on the UMD3.1 assembly.
²sPPI: posterior probability of inclusion for the given lead-SNP.

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