Genome-wide patterns of homozygosity provide clues about the population history and adaptation of goats

Background: Patterns of homozygosity can be influenced by several factors, such as demography, recombination, and selection. Using the goat SNP50 BeadChip, we genotyped 3171 goats belonging to 117 populations with a worldwide distribution. Our objectives were to characterize the number and length of...

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Autores: Bertolini, Francesca|||0000-0003-4181-3895, Figueiredo Cardoso, Tainã|||0000-0002-6038-7521, Marras, Gabriele, Nicolazzi, Ezequiel L., Rothschild, Max F., Amills i Eras, Marcel|||0000-0002-8999-0770
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:218125
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/218125
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1186/s12711-018-0424-8
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Acclimatization
Animals
Asia
Breeding
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Genome
Genomics
Genotype
Goats
Homozygote
Inbreeding
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Population Density
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Sumario:Background: Patterns of homozygosity can be influenced by several factors, such as demography, recombination, and selection. Using the goat SNP50 BeadChip, we genotyped 3171 goats belonging to 117 populations with a worldwide distribution. Our objectives were to characterize the number and length of runs of homozygosity (ROH) and to detect ROH hotspots in order to gain new insights into the consequences of neutral and selection processes on the genome-wide homozygosity patterns of goats. - Results: The proportion of the goat genome covered by ROH is, in general, less than 15% with an inverse relationship between ROH length and frequency i.e. short ROH (< 3 Mb) are the most frequent ones. Our data also indicate that ~ 60% of the breeds display low F coefficients (< 0.10), while ~ 30 and ~ 10% of the goat populations show moderate (0.10 < F < 0.20) or high (.