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. 2008 Sep 30;9:61. doi: 10.1186/1471-2156-9-61

Table 1.

Genetic Diversity Within Five Sheep Populations

Within Population Diversity Population Fst
Population n HE AN AR pAR PD MER MxB EMAI
WFS 84 0.68 6.90 7.21 0.26 0.035 0.051 0.063 0.257
PD 122 0.65 7.03 6.95 0.18 0.072 0.085 0.259
MER 126 0.70 8.13 8.13 0.58 0.043 0.183
MxB 128 0.68 7.80 7.79 0.36 0.217
EMAI 95 0.40 3.03 3.13 0.09

Microsatellite genotypes from 28 microsatellite markers were used to estimate the following measures of genetic diversity; HE is the expected heterozygosity or gene diversity; AN is the average number of observed alleles per locus; AR is allelic richness, a measure of diversity following rarefaction for sample size; pAR is private allele richness, a simple measure of population distinctiveness. All measures were calculated using HP-RARE ver1.0 [29]. n is the number of individuals tested. Pair-wise estimates of FST were calculated using the program FSTAT 2.9.3.2 http://www2.unil.ch/popgen/softwares/fstat.htm.