Linkage Disequilibrium and Effective Population Size of Buffalo Populations of Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Egypt Using a Medium Density SNP Array.

ABSTRACT: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) across the genome provides information to identify the genes and variations related to quantitative traits in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and for the implementation of genomic selection (GS). LD can also be used to evaluate genetic diversity and population structure and reveal genomic regions affected by selection. LD structure and Ne were assessed in a set of 83 water buffaloes, comprising Azeri (AZI), Khuzestani (KHU), and Mazandarani (MAZ) breeds from Iran, Kundi (KUN) and Nili-Ravi (NIL) from Pakistan, Anatolian (ANA) buffalo from Turkey, and buffalo from Egypt (EGY). The values of corrected r ² (defined as the correlation between two loci) of adjacent SNPs for three pooled Iranian breeds (IRI), ANA, EGY, and two pooled Pakistani

SUBMITTER: Rahimmadar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8689148 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature