Expression quantitative trait loci in sheep liver and muscle contribute to variations in meat traits

Table 3 Proportional functional annotation of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL, including gene expression QTL, geQTL; exon expression QTL, eeQTL and splicing QTL, sQTL) and all single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) used for eQTL detection

Functional category	All	Liver			Muscle
Functional category	All	geQTL	eeQTL	sQTL	geQTL	eeQTL	sQTL
Splice	0.0007	0.0016	0.0021	0.0019	0.0018	0.0026	0.0022
UTR	0.0022	0.0057	0.0076	0.0060	0.0069	0.0081	0.0072
Gene_end	0.0606	0.1219	0.1371	0.1226	0.1316	0.1477	0.1340
Synonymous_variant	0.0032	0.0075	0.0102	0.0085	0.0085	0.0124	0.0096
Missense_variant	0.0018	0.0047	0.0057	0.0052	0.0047	0.0060	0.0056
Intron_variant	0.3032	0.4327	0.4540	0.4434	0.4356	0.4700	0.4658
Intergenic	0.6271	0.4249	0.3822	0.4113	0.4095	0.3520	0.3746
Others	0.0010	0.0011	0.0010	0.0012	0.0015	0.0013	0.0011

All eQTL were annotated as intergenic, intronic, missense, synonymous, up or downstream (Gene_end), in untranslated regions (UTR, 3′ or 5′), having some splicing function (Splice) or other (all other categories)

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