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Table 2 A summary of number of significant SNPs detected by the 7.8 M WGS variant GWAS for RFI and its component 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: I: feed efficiency and component traits

Traita

RFI

DMI

ADG

MWT

Suggestive (p < 0.005)

41,248 (31,385)

46,455 (32,230)

44,746 (30,447)

47,923 (31,012)

Lead Suggestive

4048 (3729)

4104 (3772)

3881 (3547)

4143 (3764)

Significant (p < 1.00E-05)

54 (35)

2024 (431)

2584 (759)

4011 (935)

Lead Significant

16 (12)

72 (35)

88 (45)

116 (56)

FDR (FDR < 0.10)

0 (0)

2727 (431)

3952 (759)

5897 (935)

Lead FDR

0 (0)

72 (35)

88 (45)

116 (56)

  1. aRFI residual feed intake in kg of DMI per day, DMI daily dry matter intake in kg per day, ADG average daily gain in kg, MWT metabolic body weight in kg. FDR genome-wise false discovery rate (FDR) calculated followed the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure [32]. The numbers of additional or novel significant SNPs in comparison to the 50 K SNP panel were presented in the parentheses