Table 2.

Estimated Weight at Hatch (Least Square Means ± SE) for All Nine Possible Genotypes for an Epistatic QTL Pair on Chicken Chromosome 1, Position 337 cM and Chromosome 14, Position 11 cM

QTL genotype Chr. 1, 337 cM QTL genotype Chr. 14, 11 cM
J/J J/L L/L
J/J 39.0 ± 0.738.7 ± 0.635.7 ± 0.9
J/L 37.6 ± 0.538.9 ± 0.437.7 ± 0.6
L/L 36.8 ± 0.739.6 ± 0.640.4 ± 0.8

[i] J, allele inherited from the red junglefowl; L, allele inherited from White Leghorn; QTL, quantitative trait loci.