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Table 1 Chromosome regions and locations of QTN and recombination hotspots

From: The potential of shifting recombination hotspots to increase genetic gain in livestock breeding

Number of chromosome regions

Number of active regionsa

Number of inactive regionsb

Probability for recombination or QTN per region

250

25

225

0.04

500

50

450

0.02

1000

100

900

0.01

  1. aActive region—is a recombination hotspot and/or a QTN cluster
  2. bInactive region—is never a recombination hotspot or a QTN cluster