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Table 2 A summary of number of significant DNA variants detected by the 7.8 M WGS variant GWAS for carcass merit traits in a beef cattle multibreed population

From: Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants: II: carcass merit traits

Traita

HCW

AFAT

REA

LMY

CMAR

Suggestive (p < 0.005)

42,612 (32,240)

45,303 (34,227)

42,544 (31,909)

42,446 (33,305)

44,654 (33,211)

Lead Suggestive

3927 (3621)

3922 (3598)

3993 (3705)

3906 (3606)

4158 (3827)

Significant (p < 10−5)

1413 (374)

260 (162)

1171 (254)

312 (198)

256 (145)

Lead Significant

51 (27)

33 (23)

46 (25)

40 (31)

38 (28)

FDR (FDR < 0.10)

1997 (374)

183 (97)

1255 (254)

168 (86)

107 (59)

Lead FDR (FDR < 0.10)

51 (27)

15 (9)

46 (25)

16 (11)

12 (8)

  1. aHCW hot carcass weight in kg, AFAT average backfat thickness in mm, REA rib eye area in cm2, LMY lean meat yield in %, CMAR carcass marbling score from 100 (trace marbling) to 499 (more marbling). FDR = genome-wise false discovery rate (FDR) calculated from the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure [27]. The numbers of additional or novel significant SNPs in comparison to the 50 K SNP panel were presented in the parentheses