Non-additive genetic variation in growth, carcass and fertility traits of beef cattle

Table 2 Total number of SNPs with significant ( P < 10 ⁻⁴ ) dominance effects, number of SNPs with positive (+ve) and negative (−ve) dominance effects in the discovery population, number of SNPs tested for validation of dominance effects (Nb tested), and percentage of SNPs with positive and negative dominance effects that had an effect in the same direction in the validation population for each trait

Trait ¹	Total Nb	FDR (%)	+ve Nb	-ve Nb	Nb tested	+ve validated ² (%)	-ve validated ² (%)
PW_hip	191	36.3	174	17	185	66^***	56
X_hip	203	34.1	197	6	113	61^*	25
HUMP	71	97.5	29	42	68	39	63
PW_lwt	207	33.4	197	10	205	74^***	70
X_lwt	265	26.1	253	12	265	60^**	67
RFI	106	65.3	44	62	105	57	89^***
PWIGF	183	37.8	99	84	108	64	33^**
CP8	63	109.9	24	39	60	54	50
CRIB	75	92.3	32	43	72	48	71^**
CIMF	197	35.1	71	126	194	69^**	61^*
CRBY	114	67	56	58	112	38	41
LLPF	102	67.9	66	36	101	47	43
SC12	186	37.2	26	160	70	30	42
PNS24	260	26.6	249	11	80	51^*	18^*
AGECL	136	59	20	116	82	40	55
PPAI	90	76.9	27	63	67	58^*	36^*

¹Trait abbreviations are in Table 1; ²percentage of significant SNPs (%) that had an effect in the same direction in the validation population: ^* those that significantly differ from the expected number of SNPs at P < 0.05; ^**those that significantly differ from the expected number of SNPs at P < 0.01; and ^***those that significantly differ from the expected number of SNPs at P < 0.001.

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