Autosomal recessive loci contribute significantly to quantitative variation of male fertility in a dairy cattle population

Table 1 Position of five recessive QTL for male fertility in BSW cattle

	Additive mode of inheritance				Recessive mode of inheritance
	Start position	Stop position	Frequency of the fertility-decreasing haplotype	P value	Start position	Stop position	Frequency of the fertility-decreasing haplotype	P value
BTA1^a				ns	93,830,840	94,035,932	0.18	4.16 × 10^− 17
BTA6	57,949,492	58,100,971	0.26	8.51 × 10⁻¹⁶	57,949,492	58,100,971	0.26	9.34 × 10^− 44
BTA18^a				ns	36,256,440	36,555,965	0.34	5.38 × 10⁻⁹
BTA25^a				ns	19,628,841	19,834,098	0.09	4.56 × 10⁻⁸
BTA26^a	49,567,535	49,720,699	0.08	9.96 × 10⁻¹¹	50,746,717	50,993,657	0.26	7.53 × 10⁻¹⁷

^aresults are based on a conditional association analysis where the BTA6 top haplotype was fixed as covariate in the model

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