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Table 3 Number of variants and QTL detected in the GWAS and meta-analysis for fat and protein percentage

From: Meta-analysis for milk fat and protein percentage using imputed sequence variant genotypes in 94,321 cattle from eight cattle breeds

Analysis

Fat %

prot %

nS

FDR

nQ

nS/nQ

nS

FDR

nQ

nS/nQ

AUSB

8871

1.7 × 10−5

56

158

13,955

1.1 × 10−5

52

268

AUSC

9502

1.6 × 10−5

74

128

13,475

1.1 × 10−5

49

275

HOLF

10,124

1.4 × 10−5

22

460

11,033

1.3 × 10−5

35

315

MON

3971

3.6 × 10−5

13

305

5383

2.7 × 10−5

19

283

NOR

2981

4.7 × 10−5

11

271

3379

4.1 × 10−5

16

211

NR

4304

3.0 × 10−5

30

143

6231

2.1 × 10−5

37

168

HOLG

9244

1.6 × 10−5

20

462

10,102

1.5 × 10−5

38

266

BRAU

2483

6.4 × 10−5

13

191

2117

7.5 × 10−5

9

235

FLCK

9492

1.8 × 10−5

20

475

5654

3.0 × 10−5

33

171

GWAS

31,559

124

255

42,518

104

409

META

27,820

9.2 × 10−6

138

202

44,095

5.8 × 10−6

176

251

  1. fat %: fat percentage; prot %: protein percentage; nS: number of significant variants; FDR: false discovery rate; nQ: number of QTL; nS/nQ: number of significant variants per QTL; AUSB: Australian bull dataset; AUSC: Australian cow dataset; HOLF: French Holstein; MON: Montbéliarde; NOR: Normande; NR: Norwegian Red; HOLG: German Holstein; BRAU: Braunvieh; FLCK: Fleckvieh; GWAS: non-overlapping significant variants select in any of the 9 GWAS; META: meta-analysis