Estimates of autozygosity derived from runs of homozygosity: empirical evidence from selected cattle populations

M Ferenčaković, E Hamzić, B Gredler… - Journal of Animal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Using genome‐wide SNP data, we calculated genomic inbreeding coefficients (FROH> 1
Mb, FROH> 2 Mb, FROH> 8 Mb and FROH> 16 Mb) derived from runs of homozygosity …

Cattle sex-specific recombination and genetic control from a large pedigree analysis

L Ma, JR O'Connell, PM VanRaden, B Shen… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Meiotic recombination is an essential biological process that generates genetic diversity and
ensures proper segregation of chromosomes during meiosis. From a large USDA dairy …

Detection of selective sweeps in cattle using genome-wide SNP data

HR Ramey, JE Decker, SD McKay, MM Rolf… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background The domestication and subsequent selection by humans to create breeds and
biological types of cattle undoubtedly altered the patterning of variation within their …

[HTML][HTML] Variation and genetic control of individual recombination rates in Norwegian Red dairy cattle

C Brekke, SE Johnston, AB Gjuvsland, P Berg - Journal of Dairy Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Meiotic recombination is an important evolutionary mechanism that breaks up linkages
between loci and creates novel haplotypes for selection to act upon. Understanding the …

[HTML][HTML] Genotyping more cows increases genetic gain and reduces rate of true inbreeding in a dairy cattle breeding scheme using female reproductive technologies

JR Thomasen, H Liu, AC Sørensen - Journal of Dairy Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Both small dairy cattle populations and dairy cattle populations with a low level of linkage
disequilibrium (LD) suffer from low reliability of genomic prediction. In this study, we …

Detection of runs of homozygosity in Norwegian Red: Density, criteria and genotyping quality control

B Hillestad, JA Woolliams, SA Boison… - … , Section A—Animal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are long, homozygote segments of an individual's genome,
traceable to the parents and might be identical by descent. Due to the lack of standards for …

Retelling the recent evolution of genetic diversity for Guzerá: Inferences from LD decay, runs of homozygosity and Ne over the generations

PA de Souza Fonseca, FC Dos Santos, IC Rosse… - Livestock science, 2016 - Elsevier
Genetic diversity is the one of the most important issues in conservation studies of livestock
breeds or endangered species. In the present study, we tested the feasibility of describing …

Genome‐wide linkage disequilibrium in the B londe d'Aquitaine cattle breed

J Beghain, S Boitard, B Weiss… - Journal of Animal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present here the first genome‐wide characterization of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the
F rench B londe d'A quitaine (BLA) breed, a well‐muscled breed renowned for producing …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide recombination variation in biparental segregating and reciprocal backcross populations provides information for introgression breeding in …

M Wang, GJ King, L Shi, R Li, Y Zhang, X Wang… - The Crop Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Variation in patterns of recombination in plant genomes provides information about species
evolution, genetic diversity and crop improvement. We investigated meiotic crossovers …

Recombination rate inference via deep learning is limited by sequence diversity

MM Johnson, CO Wilke - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
A common inference task in population genetics is to estimate recombination rate from
multiple sequence alignments. Traditionally, recombination rate estimators have been …