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Table 1 Summary of the GWAS results for milk production traits and mastitis resistance

From: Distinguishing pleiotropy from linked QTL between milk production traits and mastitis resistance in Nordic Holstein cattle

Traits

Number of QTL

V (lead SNP)/V (DRP)a (%)

Fat yield

27

28.57

Protein yield

34

16.76

Milk yield

26

21.50

Mastitis resistance

22

14.54

  1. aPercentage of genetic variance explained by the identified QTL, V(lead SNP) is the variance explained by the lead SNPs, whereas V(DRP) is the variance of de-regressed breeding values (DRP)