Sheep QTLdb data summary

As of Apr 24, 2025, there have been 5,417 QTL / eQTL / associations released for public access on the Sheep QTLdb. These data were curated from 289 publications and represent 178 base traits, 250 trait variants, and 0 eQTL genes.

Data summary selector:

Data by Traits
Experiments by Traits
Data by Trait Variants
Experiments by Trait Variants
Data by Trait Types
Data by Trait Classes

of trait names by their frequency in QTL/association reports

Data by Chromosomes
Data by Marker Types
Data by Publishing Journals
Data by Years Published
Data Sources by Years Published
Data in Curation Pipeline
Types of structural genome information aligned against the QTL/association maps

Curated Data by Years Published

Year	Curated data
2011	136
2012	99
2013	107
2014	391
2015	104
2016	366
2017	237
2018	254
2019	364
2020	946
2021	511
2022	344
2023	650
2024	908

* Note that the new data curation into the database is an ongoing process. Lower number of current/recent years data counts may simply be a reflection of time lag depending on our curator resources and work-loads.

NOTE: On this site, the term "QTL" may have collectively included quantitative loci, SNP associations, and eQTL data.