extremely significantP = 4.14 × 10 −16
Additionally, the FarmCPU model identified extremely significant SNP for somatic cell count, fat percentage, and total dry matter percentage traits, located on chromosome 13 (13:2275920, P = 4.14 × 10 −16 ), chromosome 3 (3:14938807, P = 5.75 × 10 −18 ), and chromosome 20 (20:66155928, P = 1.03 × 10 −18 ), respectively. 3.5 Positional candidate genes To further investigate the molecular markers and functional genes related to economic traits in goat milk, we identified genes within a 50 kb range upstream and downstream of the significant SNP as positional candidate genes.