| ANG | Angus |
| BAO | Baoule |
| BEC | Berrenda en Colorado |
| BIC | Bayesian Information Criterion |
| BRM | Brahman |
| CAC | Cachena |
| CAR | Cardena Andaluza |
| CCC | Costeño con Cuernos |
| CRK | Florida Cracker |
| DA | Discriminant Axis |
| DAPC | Discriminant Analysis of Principal Components |
| DCMS | Decorrelated Composite of Multiple Signals |
| FROH | Inbreeding coefficient based on runs of homozygosity |
| GIR | Gir |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| HE | Expected heterozygosity |
| HO | Observed heterozygosity |
| HOL | Holstein |
| iHS | Integrated Haplotype Score |
| JER | Jersey |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LAG | Lagune |
| LID | Lidia |
| MOS | Mostrenca |
| MSH | Milking Shorthorn |
| NAC | North American Corriente |
| NACA | North American Corriente Association |
| NDA | N’Dama |
| Ne | Effective population size |
| NEL | Nelore |
| PAJ | Pajuna |
| PCs | Principal components |
| PCA | Principal component analysis |
| QTL | Quantitative Trait Loci |
| RAV | Asturiana de los Valles |
| RC | Rarámuri Criollo |
| RCJER | Rarámuri Criollo from the Jornada Experimental Range |
| RCRET | Rarámuri Criollo from the Rancho Experimental Teseachi |
| RET | Retinta |
| RMS | Romosinuano |
| ROH | Runs of homozygosity |
| RPO | Red Poll |
| SEN | Senepol |
| SHR | Beef Shorthorn |
| SNM | San Martinero |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| SOM | Somba |
| TXL | Texas Longhorn |