Fig. 6: LD blocks with SNPs that affect BW.

SNPs on Chr1 satisfying the following criteria were used to construct the haplotype. i. SNP set I, significant SNPs associated with BW at different ages in weeks; ii. SNP set II, significant SNPs associated with traits strongly correlated with BW (Pearson’s r2 > 0.54); iii. SNP set III, high-LD SNPs with SNP set I, and SNP set II (r2 > 0.7) and the removal of one of any pair of adjacent SNPs <100 bp apart. Two blocks were obtained with these 39 SNPs (162,392,483–173,372,050), located at 170,518,527–170,858,231 (170.52–170.86 Mb) and 172,984,526–173,069,902 (172.98–173.07 Mb).