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Animals (Basel). 2020 Jun 14;10(6). doi: 10.3390/ani10061034.

Estimation of Linkage Disequilibrium and Effective Population Size in Three Italian Autochthonous Beef Breeds.

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI

Maria Chiara Fabbri, Christos Dadousis, Riccardo Bozzi

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali, Università di Firenze, 50144 Firenze, Italy.

PMID: 32545850 PMCID: PMC7341513 DOI: 10.3390/ani10061034

Abstract

The objective was to investigate the pattern of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in three local beef breeds, namely, Calvana (n = 174), Mucca Pisana (n = 270), and Pontremolese (n = 44). As a control group, samples of the Italian Limousin breed (n = 100) were used. All cattle were genotyped with the GeneSeek GGP-LDv4 33k SNP chip containing 30,111 SNPs. The genotype quality control for each breed was conducted separately, and SNPs with call rate < 0.95 and minor allele frequency (MAF) > 1% were used for the analysis. LD extent was estimated in PLINK v1.9 using the squared correlation between pairs of loci (

Keywords: conservation; effective population size; linkage disequilibrium; local breeds

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