Genotypes for these analyses were produced using the BovSNP50v1 assay (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) and SNP coordinates from build Btau4.0 of the bovine genome sequence.
Meta-analyses, forest plots, and publication bias analyses were produced using Stata SE 13.1 for Mac (Stata Corp ,TX, USA) [19].
All analyses were produced using SPSS statistical package.
Meta-analyses, forest plots, and publication bias analyses were produced using Stata SE 13.1 for Mac (Stata Corp ,TX, USA) [ 19].
Clustering and tree-view analyses were produce using publically available software [43] (http://bonsai.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~mdehoon/software/cluster/software.htm ctv).htm ctv
Statistical analyses and graphs displaying the results obtained were produced using SPSS version 13.0 for Windows.
All analyses and summaries were produced using SAS version 9.3 or above (SAS Institute, Cary, NC).
Statistical analyses and graphs were produced using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 19 (IBM Company, Chicago, IL).
Stata version 12.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX) was used for statistical analyses, and graphs were produced using GraphPad Prism (GraphPad, San Diego, CA).
Analyses and graphical summaries were produced using the statistical package R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria).
