Table 1 Distribution of the retrieved SNPs of the bovine LEP gene. The bolded SNPs were the nonsynonymous SNPs that are selected for the present comprehensive study

1

Start retained variant

1

2

5′ UTR variants

14

3

Synonymous variants

76

4

Missense (non-synonymous)variants

90

5

Frameshift variants

5

6

Inframe deletion

1

7

Splice acceptor variant

2

8

Splice donor variant

1

9

Stop gained

3

10

Intronic variants

2939

11

Splice region variants

15

12

3′ UTR variants

734

Total

3881