Genome-wide estimates of coancestry, inbreeding and effective population size in the Spanish Holstein population

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 4; p. e0124157
• Main Authors: Rodríguez-Ramilo, Silvia Teresa, Fernández, Jesús, Toro, Miguel Angel, Hernández, Delfino, Villanueva, Beatriz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 16.04.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animal Husbandry; Animals; Bovidae; Cattle; Chromosomes; Estimates; Genetic diversity; Genome; Genomes; Genomics; Homozygosity; Inbreeding; Life Sciences; Mathematical analysis; Pedigree; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Population; Population number; Population statistics; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Spain; Spain; pedigree information; diversity; selection; deficiency; conservation program; strategie; prediction; dairy-cattle; depression; linkage disequilibrium

Estimates of effective population size in the Holstein cattle breed have usually been low despite the large number of animals that constitute this breed. Effective population size is inversely related to the rates at which coancestry and inbreeding increase and these rates have been high as a conseq...