Runs of homozygosity in the Italian goat breeds: impact of management practices in low-input systems.

ABSTRACT: Climate and farming systems, several of which are considered as low-input agricultural systems, vary between goat populations from Northern and Southern Italy and have led to different management practices. These processes have impacted genome shaping in terms of inbreeding and regions under selection and resulted in differences between the northern and southern populations. Both inbreeding and signatures of selection can be pinpointed by the analysis of runs of homozygosity (ROH), which provides useful information to assist the management of this species in different rural areas. We analyzed the ROH distribution and inbreeding (FROH) in 902 goats from the Italian Goat Consortium2 dataset. We evaluated the differences in individual ROH number and length between goat breeds from Northern (N

SUBMITTER: Cortellari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8666052 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature