Figure 8

Distribution of effective number of probes in heritability-weighted averages. Boxplots show the distribution for probe sets that do not define significant QTLs (QTLs at 20% false-discovery rate) and for those that define QTLs of different types. In each plot, the central box shows the range between the 25th and 75th percentiles. The line across the box gives the median location, and the shaded area gives the 95% confidence interval for the median. Lines above and below the box give the range for all data except outliers, which are plotted singly beyond the range defined by the terminal crossbars. trans QTLs are those for which the QTL is more than 10 Mb distant from the location of the transcript whose expression defines it. + QTLs are those for which the DBA2/J allele is associated with higher expression.