Six single QTL were detected for ear size (Table 1). The
genome-wide significance thresholds were 9.39 and 10.07
at the 1% level for SSC5 and SSC7 respectively and 8.37,
7.80, 8.25 and 8.44 at the 5% level for SSC1, SSC6, SSC9
and SSC12 respectively. The QTL on SSC5 and SSC7 had
high F-ratios as well as large additive effects and were
genome-wide significant (P < 0.01).