Article
Effective population size of an indigenous Swiss cattle breed estimated from linkage disequilibrium.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Oct 2010
Flury C, Tapio M, Sonstegard T, Drögemüller C, Leeb T, Simianer H, Hanotte O, Rieder S
Abstract excerpt
Effective population size is an important parameter for the assessment of genetic diversity within a livestock population and its development over time. If pedigree information is not available, linkage disequilibrium (LD) analysis might offer an alternative perspective for the estimation of effective population size. In this study, 128 individuals of the Swiss Eringer breed were genotyped using the Illumina...
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