West African cattle share non-random heterozygosity-rich region islands enriched on adaptation-related genes despite their different origins

MethodsUp to 237 individuals belonging to 10 different taurine (Bos taurus), zebu (B. indicus), and taurine × zebu sanga cattle populations sampled in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger were typed using the BovineHD BeadChip of Illumina to ascertain the patterns and importance of heterozygosity-rich reg...

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Main Authors: Katherine D. Arias, Iván Fernández, Amadou Traoré, Félix Goyache
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Animal Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fanim.2024.1468575/full
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