Figure 5

Clustering of lead SNPs representing major loci affecting dairy raw traits (RTs, a) and principal components (PCs, b) in the discovery population. Loci displaying similar effect clustering patterns across RT, PC and Choleskey transformed traits (Supplementary Figure S3) were highlighted in red boxes. Loci labels on the Y-axis were the same for both left (correlation of SNPs’ effects) and right (SNP’s effects on traits) panels. t values with absolute values >= 1 and validated for consistent effect directions between the discovery and validation populations were coloured. The RT associated with the top factor loading value of each PC was shown in the parentheses on the right panel (Supplementary Table S4).