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

Table 6 Summary statistics and estimated parameters for the best-fit model (Johnson Su distribution) for the distribution of the percentage of additive genetic variance explained by 1-Mb windows generated from the permutated data in the Angus population ¹

Parameter	ADG	DMI	MBW	RFI
N	2,684	2,684	2,684	2,684
Mean	0.039	0.042	0.043	0.041
Standard deviation	0.017	0.048	0.054	0.045
−2Log(Likelihood)	−14,665.593	−12,985.369	−12,578.502	−13,090.396
Shape γ	−0.514	−1.019	−0.996	−1.001
Shape δ	1.772	0.924	0.908	0.976
Location θ	0.031	0.018	0.017	0.018
Scale σ	0.023	0.009	0.010	0.010

¹ADG: average daily gain, DMI: dry matter intake, MBW: mid-test metabolic body weight, and RFI: residual feed intake.

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