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A publicly available repository of ROH islands reveals signatures of selection in different livestock and pet species.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 4 Jan 2021
Gorssen Wim, Meyermans Roel, Janssens Steven, Buys Nadine
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BACKGROUND: Runs of homozygosity (ROH) have become the state-of-the-art method for analysis of inbreeding in animal populations. Moreover, ROH are suited to detect signatures of selection via ROH islands and are used in other applications, such as genomic prediction and genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Currently, a vast amount of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data is available online, but most of...
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