Additional file 2: of Increased prediction accuracy using a genomic feature model including prior information on quantitative trait locus regions in purebred Danish Duroc pigs

The QTLs recorded in the Pig QTL database [ 11 ] are organized based on trait ontology, and we used the 167 traits listed in the Vertebrate Trait Ontology column. A marker set containing the SNPs that was not included in any of the QTL sets and a set containing all markers was added to this genomic feature class, resulting in a total of 169 tested marker sets. The number of SNPs associated with each of the 169 QTL sets is shown in Additional file 2 (XLSX 48Â kb)