Table 1.

Correlation coefficients between qRT-PCR and sequencing data for Dorper sheep and Hu sheep

		SOLiD	lllumina V1	lllumina V1.5	lllumina GA
	qRT-PCR	0.9399	0.9118	0.9036	0.9178
Dorper sheep	Lllumina V1	0.7785	0.9441	0.9427
	Lllumina V1	0.7797	0.9478
Hu sheep	Lllumina V1	0.8400
	qRT-PCR	0.9543	0.9180	0.9246	0.9474
	Lllumina GA	0.8818	0.9491	0.9172
	Lllumina V1.5	0.8639	0.9244
	Lllumina V1	0.9105

Correlation coefficients between qRT-PCR and sequencing data were calculated by the data listed in Additional File 10. Correlation coefficients between different sequencing data were calculated by the data listed in Additional File 7.