Sheep QTLdb data summary

As of Aug 26, 2025, there have been 8,288 QTL / eQTL / associations released for public access on the Sheep QTLdb. These data were curated from 293 publications and represent 182 base traits, 266 trait variants, and 0 eQTL genes.

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Data by Traits
Experiments by Traits
Data by Trait Variants
Experiments by Trait Variants
Data by Trait Types
Data by Trait Classes

of trait names by their frequency in QTL/association reports

Genome assemblies supported
Data by Chromosomes
Data by Marker Types
Data by Publishing Journals
Data by Years Published
Data Sources by Years Published
Data in Curation Pipeline
Types of structural genome information aligned against the QTL/association maps

QTL/associations by Chromosomes

Chromosomes	Number of QTL
1	484
2	1,331
3	498
4	227
5	249
6	483
7	242
8	233
9	166
10	216
11	205
12	206
13	239
14	1,541
15	204
16	185
17	190
18	120
19	190
20	377
21	104
22	75
23	89
24	104
25	133
26	82
X	115

NOTE: On this site, the term "QTL" may have collectively included quantitative loci, SNP associations, and eQTL data.