Concordance analysis for QTL detection in dairy cattle: a case study of leg morphology

Table 1 Selected regions and their posterior inclusion probabilities, using different interval sizes

	40 markers				30 markers			20 markers			10 markers
QTL	chr	start	end	∑p₄₀	rank	∑p₃₀	∑p₃₀/∑p₄₀	rank	∑p₂₀	∑p₂₀/∑p₄₀	rank	∑p₁₀	∑p₁₀/∑p₄₀
1	23	46.1	48.2	1.72	1	1.55	0.90	1	1.09	0.63	7	0.75	0.44
2	5	109.6	111.7	1.45	2	1.21	0.83	7	0.93	0.64	24	0.57	0.39
3	19	47.7	49.8	1.31	3	1.19	0.91	2	1.02	0.78	3	0.83	0.63
4	14	66.3	69.4	1.31	4	1.15	0.88	4	0.98	0.75	9	0.73	0.56
5	3	98.6	100.7	1.27	12	0.99	0.78	8	0.90	0.71	15	0.62	0.49
6	19	60.3	62.5	1.23	7	1.09	0.89	18	0.79	0.64	18	0.60	0.49
7	1	146.6	148.2	1.23	15	0.97	0.79	13	0.85	0.69	23	0.57	0.46
8	15	29.5	31.3	1.22	8	1.08	0.89	6	0.94	0.77	35	0.50	0.41
9	13	46.5	48.4	1.21	16	0.96	0.79	31	0.67	0.55	40	0.46	0.38
10	6	87.2	90.3	1.21	10	1.01	0.83	25	0.74	0.61	32	0.51	0.42
11	10	74.9	78.2	1.19	5	1.11	0.93	3	1.02	0.86	1	0.85	0.71
12	29	6.6	9.1	1.19	9	1.01	0.85	9	0.90	0.76	14	0.62	0.52
13	11	104.6	107.0	1.17	6	1.09	0.93	5	0.97	0.83	2	0.84	0.72
14	19	23.9	26.0	1.16	14	0.97	0.84	23	0.76	0.66	19	0.59	0.51
15	26	21.8	24.3	1.14	21	0.94	0.82	17	0.81	0.71	16	0.61	0.54
16	23	24.2	27.8	1.12	23	0.93	0.83	22	0.76	0.68	21	0.57	0.51
17	28	30.8	33.9	1.10	11	0.99	0.90	10	0.89	0.81	4	0.78	0.71
18	8	96.5	98.8	1.10	22	0.93	0.85	28	0.71	0.65	26	0.55	0.50
19	3	40.6	43.2	1.10	20	0.95	0.86	14	0.85	0.77	8	0.74	0.67
20	18	14.0	16.8	1.08	24	0.93	0.86	20	0.77	0.71	12	0.63	0.58

The 20 QTL with the largest sum of posterior inclusion probabilities (∑p) and their location in Mb, ranked based on their ∑p considering an interval size of 40 markers (~2.5 Mb), and their rank and ∑p if smaller intervals of 30 (~1.9 Mb), 20 (~1.3 Mb) or 10 (~0.6 Mb) are used.

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