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It had been demonstrated that the strong and highly signiifcantquantitative trait locus (QTL) can affect protein percentage on Bos Taurus Autosome 3 (BTA3) at the position 52 cM, near the microsatelliteDIK4353, with the 95% conifdence interval spanning from 25 to 57 cM in Chinese Holstein population using QTL-express, MQREML, and GRIDQTL softwares. This study herein focused on such region of ifne mapping QTLs for milk production and functional traits with 16 microsatellite markers with coverage of 33 cM between the markersBMS2904 andMB099 on BTA3 in a daughter-designed Chinese Holstein population. A total of 1298 Holstein cows and 7 sires were genotyped for 16 microsatellites with ABI 3700 DNA sequencer. The variance components QTL linkage analysis (LA) and linkage-disequilibrium (LD) analysis (LA/LD) was performed to map QTLs for 7 traits, i.e., 305-d milk yield, fat yield, protein yield, fat percentage, protein percentage, somatic cell score and persistency of milk yield. Four strong and highly signiifcant QTLs were detected for fat yield, fat percentage, protein percentage and somatic cell score at the position 40, 30, 27 and 26 cM, respectively. Two minor QTLs for milk yield and persistency of milk yield were identiifed at 42 and 46 cM, respectively. These ifndings provided a general idea for the ifne mapping of the causal mutation for milk production and functional traits on BTA3 in the future.