A publicly available repository of ROH islands reveals signatures of selection in different livestock and pet species

Abstract 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 associati...

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Main Authors: Wim Gorssen, Roel Meyermans, Steven Janssens, Nadine Buys
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Genetics Selection Evolution
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-020-00599-7