<p>Notes:<sup> a</sup> Chr-ini is the first marker interval chromosomal location, and Chr-inj is the second marker interval chromosomal location;</p>b<p>The digenic effect of the two interacting loci; AiAj, the effect of additive-by-additive interaction between points i and j; AiDj, the effect of additive-by-dominant interaction between points i and j; DiAj, the effect of dominant-by-additive interaction between points i and j; DiDj, the effect of dominant-by-dominant interaction between points i and j; a positive or negative epistatic effect indicates that parental allele or recombinant allele combinations, respectively, increase phenotypic values;</p><p>increase phenotypic values;</p>c<p>Contribution explained by the locus pair interaction;</p>d *<p><i>p</i>≤0.0005; <sup>**</sup><i>p</i>≤0.0001;</p>e<p>Bold indicates that the interval is identical to conditional or unconditional QTL.</p
