Association of nuclear SNPs with weight1 using family-based quantitative trait linkage disequilibrium (QTLD) analysis, the measured genotype test and the quantitative disequilibrium test (QTDT) 2.

1Body weight was recorded on each animal at approximately 7 (Weight2), 9 (Weight3) and 12 (Weight4) months post-hatching.2Family-based QTLD analysis was performed with software SOLAR version 4.0 [24]. The sample included 40 FS families each with ∼17 progeny. Here, we show the asymptotic P-value for the test statistic distributed as a with 1 DF; the effective number of tests and multiple testing adjusted P-value was P = 0.00165 [65].3QTDT stands for quantitative trait disequilibrium test [21].**indicates significance at P0.01.*indicates significance at P0.05.