Multi-breed and multi-trait co-association analysis of meat tenderness and other meat quality traits in three French beef cattle breeds

Table 2 Proportion of phenotypic variance explained by SNPs identified with the AWM approach, by the 206 common genes, and by the 206 randomly selected SNPs

Breed	AWM SNPs	206 common genes	206 random SNPs
Limousine	0.74 ± 0.03	0.28 ± 0.03	0.04 ± 0.02
Charolaise	0.68 ± 0.04	0.28 ± 0.03	0.05 ± 0.02
Blonde d’Aquitaine	0.72 ± 0.04	0.30 ± 0.04	0.09 ± 0.03

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