Article
Litter Size of Sheep (Ovis aries): Inbreeding Depression and Homozygous Regions.
Genes - 18 Jan 2021
Tao Lin, He Xiaoyun, Wang Xiangyu, Di Ran, Chu Mingxing
Abstract excerpt
Ovine litter size (LS) is an important trait showing variability within breeds. It remains largely unknown whether inbreeding depression on LS exists based on genomic homozygous regions, and whether the homozygous regions resulted from inbreeding are significantly associated with LS in sheep. We here reanalyze a set of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip of six breeds to characterize the patterns of runs of...
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Homozygote
- Inbreeding Depression
- Litter Size
- Male
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Sheep, Domestic