Table 2. The genotype, allele and minor allele frequency, and HWE for six candidate SNPs used in this study

SNP (gene)	Allele (n)	Frequency	Genotype (n)	Frequency	MAF	H	HWE
rs41919985 (FASN)	G (95)	0.85	GG (39)	0.70	0.15	0.26	0.18
	A (17)	0.15	GA (17)	0.30
	-	-	AA (0)	0.00
rs41255693 (SCD)	T (58)	0.52	TT (13)	0.23	0.48	0.50	0.28
	C (54)	0.48	TC (32)	0.57
	-	-	CC (11)	0.20
rs41729173 (FABP4)	C (85)	0.76	CC (33)	0.59	0.24	0.37	0.59
	G (27)	0.24	CG (19)	0.34
	-	-	GG (4)	0.07
rs136261927 (FADS1)	G (57)	0.51	GG (17)	0.30	0.49	0.50	0.18
	A (55)	0.49	GA (23)	0.41
	-	-	AA (16)	0.29
rs42187261 (FADS1)	A (79)	0.71	AA (29)	0.52	0.29	0.42	0.46
	G (33)	0.29	AG (21)	0.38
	-	-	GG (6)	0.11

SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; n, number of animals; MAF, minor allele frequency; H, heterozygosity; HWE, probability value of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; FASN, fatty acid synthase; SCD, stearoyl-CoA desaturase; FABP, fatty acid binding protein; FADS, fatty acid desaturase.