Table 1.
Distributions of SNPs after quality control and the average distances between adjacent SNPs on each chromosome.
Table 2.
The specific primers for RT-PCR and q-PCR in this study.
Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of phenotypic data.
Table 4.
Phenotypic mean, standard deviation and status of normalization for non-normal traits after the transformation.
Figure 1.
Manhattan plots showing association of all SNPs with carcass and meat quality traits from compressed MLM.
SNPs are plotted on the x-axis according to their position on each chromosome against association with these traits on the y-axis (shown as -log10 p-value). The black dashed line indicates genome-wise significance of suggestive association (p-value = 5.19E−05), and the red dashed line shows genome-wise 5% significance with a p-value threshold of 2.59E−06. Abbreviations: CW, carcass weight; EW, eviscerated weight; DP, dressed percentage; BrW, breast muscle weight; BrP, percentage of breast muscle; ThW, thigh muscle weight; ThP, Percentage of thigh muscle; AbFW, weight of abdominal fat; AbFP, percentage of abdominal fat; DMBr, dry matter content in breast;IMFBr, intramuscular fat in breast; DMTh, dry matter content in thigh; pHu, ultimate pH.
Table 5.
SNPs with genome-wide and suggestive significance for carcass weight, eviscerated weight and dressed percentage traits.
Table 6.
SNPs with genome-wide and suggestive significance for breast muscle weight and percentage of breast muscle.
Table 7.
SNPs with genome-wide and suggestive significance for thigh muscle weight, percentage of thigh muscle, weight of abdominal fat and percentage of abdominal fat traits.
Table 8.
SNPs with genome-wide and suggestive significance for meat quality traits.
Figure 2.
The relative mRNA expression of gap junction protein, alpha 1 gene (a) was consistent with that of the breast muscle weight (b) across development.
The mRNA expression is shown as the number of copies (×105) per µg total RNA; Data are means (n = 6).