In the first experiment, a statistically significant association (P < 0.05) with cold tolerance was found for two unlinked markers, UNH118 and UNH180. Three markers, UNH180, UNH183 and UNH197, were found to be associated (P < 0.05) with body weight (Table 1).
UNH183 is an unmapped microsatellite, while the other two markers are on the same linkage group (AR10) in the map of Agresti et al. (2000), which is homologous to LG23 in the maps published.