Release 57
(Aug 26, 2025)

Cattle QTLdb data summary
As of Aug 26, 2025, there have been 194,095 QTL / eQTL / associations released for public access on the Cattle QTLdb. These data were curated from 1,215 publications and represent 558 base traits, 434 trait variants, and 346 eQTL genes.
Data summary selector:
  1. Data by Traits
  2. Experiments by Traits
  3. Data by Trait Variants
  4. Experiments by Trait Variants
  5. Data by Trait Types
  6. Data by Trait Classes
  7. Genome assemblies supported
  8. Data by Chromosomes
  9. Data by Marker Types
  10. Data by Publishing Journals
  11. Data by Years Published
  12. Data Sources by Years Published
  13. Data in Curation Pipeline
  14. Types of structural genome information aligned against the QTL/association maps

Trait classes with the most curated data

Trait classes
Number of QTL
Milk84,918
Reproduction45,994
Production22,000
Meat and Carcass21,734
Exterior10,386
Health8,031
✻ Trait classes / types / base traits : are trait livestock trait hierarchies used in our trait ontology management system. See FAQ - Terminologies for how they are defined, or lick on a trait class to see what they are.
NOTE: On this site, the term "QTL" may have collectively included quantitative loci, SNP associations, and eQTL data.

 

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