Epistatic QTL pairs associated with meat quality and carcass composition traits in a porcine Duroc × Pietrain population

Table 3 Reported QTL in the literature around similar locations as the QTL identified in the present study

Carcass composition	SSC (position cM)¹	Flanking marker	Reference²
BFT 13/14 rib	18 (21)	SW2540 - SW1023	[41, 44]
BFT shoulder	10 (151)	SW2067	[64]
	15 (84)	SW1119	[65]
BFT thickness	7(138)	S0101	[40, 45]
ECLC	2 (135)	SW1564 - SW834	[23, 66]
	8 (62)	SW1029 - SW7	[23]
Fat area	6 (112)	S0003	[31, 42]
Fat muscle ratio	2 (125)	SW240 - SW1564	[23, 32]
	8 (62)	SW1029 - SW7	[23]
Loin eye area	2 (135)	SW1564 - SW834	[33]
	4 (96)	S0214 - S0097	[37]
	8 (58)	SW1029 - SW7	[23, 44, 67]
	10 (70)	SW830 - S0070	[41]
	17 (55)	SW840 - SW2431	[68]
Meat quality 1	SSC (position cM) ¹	Flanking marker	Reference ²
pH decline loin	3 (52)	SW2570 - S0002	[44]
	6 (39)	S0035 - S0087	[69]
	15 (61)	SW936 - SW1119	[69]
pH 24 h loin	3 (16)	SW27 - S0164	[18]
	4 (14)	S0227 - S0001	[50]
	10 (84)	S0070 - SW951	[59]
	11(39)	S0071 - S0009	[50]
	18 (24)	SW1023 - SB58	[51]
pH 24 ham	1 (108)	S0312 - SW2166	[23, 54, 70]
	2 (179)	SWR2157 - SW1879	[23, 33]
	5 (126)	IGF1 - SW1954	[69, 71]
	10 (84)	S0070 - SW951	[59]
	15 (61)	SW936 - SW1119	[31]
	18 (23)	SW1023 - SB58	[51]
Conductivity. 24 h loin	5 (52)	SWR453 - SW2425	[72]
	13 (75)	TNNC - SW398	[73, 74]
Conductivity 24 h ham	10 (99)	S0070 - SW951	[31]
Meat color	7 (80)	SW175 - S0115	[18]
Meat quality 2	SSC (position cM) ¹	Flanking marker	Reference ²
Cooking loss	7 (45)	S0025 - S0064	[50]
	13 (13)	S0219 - SW344	[58]
	15 (16)	S0355 - SW1111	[68]
Shear force	2 (150)	SW834 - S0226	[23, 49]
	7 (87)	SW175 - S0115	[44, 51]
	13 (112)	SW398 - S0289	[50]
IMF	1(263)	SW2512	[16, 44, 54]
	5 (87)	S0005 - SW1987	[56]
	6 (101)	S0059 - S0003	[55]

SSC Sus scrofa chromosome
¹ position of the QTL in cM
² references of other studies reporting QTL in similar regions of the specific chromosome

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