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Conflicts of interestThe authors declare no conflict of interest.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe contributions of Núcleo de Criadores de Nelore do Norte do Paraná, Luciano Borges (Rancho da Matinha), and Eduardo Penteado Cardoso (Fazenda Mundo Novo) are gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank Dr. Zhong Wang for help with the gwas.lasso package. Research supported in part by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, #2012/02039-9, #2013/26902-0, #2014/14121-7, #2013/20571-2, and #2014/07566-2) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, #473249/2013-8 and #442345/2014-3). REFERENCESAlexandre PA, Kogelman LJA, Santana MHA, Passarelli D, et al (2015). Liver transcriptomic networks reveal main biological processes associated with feed efficiency in beef cattle. BMC Genomics 16: 1073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-2292-8 Anderson RV, Rasby RJ, Klopfenstein TJ and RT Clark. (2005). 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