Fig. 3

Features of cis splicing quantitative trait loci (sQTLs) compared to exon expression QTL (eeQTLs) and gene expression QTL (geQTLs). a The distance between the transcription start site (TSS) and the expression QTLs. TSS information was downloaded from Ensembl (bovine reference UMD3.1). b The proportion of expression QTLs annotated as splice, UTR, gene_end, synonymous, missense, intron, intergenic or other. SNP annotations were based on Variant Effect Predictor. ‘Splice’ included all SNP annotations containing the word ‘splice’. ‘UTR’ included 3′ and 5′ untranslated region. ‘Gene_end’ included upstream and downstream