Table 2. Summary of QTLs affecting meat quality-related traits in Yorkshire pigs

SSC1)	Traits	Nsnp2)	Interval (Mb)	TopSNP3)	Position (bp)4)	β	se	p-value5)	%Var6)	Known candidate genes
2	b*	1	63.4	AX-116172218	63418737	−5.71E-01	1.19E-01	2.16E-06††	4.28	- HAUS8
		4	60.5-66.7	AX-116679656	60582816	−5.41E-01	1.19E-01	6.93E-06†	3.92
8	Shear	1	135.1	AX-116692048	135127121	5.37E-01	1.11E-01	1.63E-06††	4.57	lncRNA(ENSSSCG00000047440)

Pig chromosome.
Number of significant SNPs at the genome-wide level.
ID of top SNPs.
Genome map position on the Sus scrofa11.1 genome assembly.
Nominal p-values computed using the GEMMA package (^††q < 0.1, ^†0.1 ≤ q < 0.2).
Percentage of phenotypic variance explained by the top SNPs.
QTLs, quantitative trait loci; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; GEMMA, genome-wide efficient mixed model association.