Strikingly, the strongest QTL from each gender overlapped almost perfectly with two of the strongest (genotype versus expression level r 2 >0.5) cis- eQTLs in the growth-related gene set ( Figure 4 , blue lines), and the weaker female length QTL coincided with a weaker ( r 2 >0.2) but still highly significant growth-related gene cis- eQTL ( Figure 4a , green line).
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