A genome-wide association study in a large F2-cross of laying hens reveals novel genomic regions associated with feather pecking and aggressive pecking behavior

Table 2 Numbers of clusters, chromosomal positions, and numbers of significant SNPs for the traits FDP and FDP_meta

Trait	Cluster number	Chr	Start/end position in bp 3 Mbp interval	Length in Mb	Number of SNPs p ≤ 5 × 10⁻⁵	Number of SNPs \(p_{genome - wide} \le 0.05\)
FPD	1	3	58,834,628–59,725,450	0.89	3	0
	2	4	53,335,653–53,945,398	0.61	6	0
	3	6	3059,760–3075 330	0.02	2	0
	4	8	25,309,634–25,399,547	0.09	2	0
FPD_meta	1	1	58,412,953–58,831,069	0.42	3	0
	2	1	149,753,999–150,465,791	0.71	2	0
	3	2	37,372,218–39,828,657	2.46	2	0
	4	3	102,969,523–105,470,402	2.50	2	0
	5	3	107,262,448–109,945,836	2.68	3	0
	6	4	87,030,671–87,082,448	0.05	2	0
	7	8	3612,454–5410,229	1.80	3	0
	8	8	23,799,410–26,002,938	2.20	9	3
	9	9	5650,341–7645,421	2.00	5	2
	10	9	16,342,044–18,770,002	2.43	13	3
	11	9	18,726,350–20,815,056	2.09	4	0
	12	19	6883,105–8064,270	1.18	2	0
	13	24	2480,724–3900,089	1.42	3	0

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