Table 2. Description of cattle genotypes available for analysis before (BF) and after (AF) filtering for cryptic relatedness and quality control.
| Breed | Code | Subspecies | Purpose | HapMapa | BOKUb | ZGCc | Total | ||||
| BF | AF | BF | AF | BF | AF | BF | AFf | ||||
| Angus | ANG | Bos taurus | Beef | 27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 24 |
| Brown Swiss | BSW | Bos taurus | Dairy | 24 | 13 | 48 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 44 |
| Gir | GIR | Bos indicus | Dairy | 30 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 23 |
| Nellore | NEL | Bos indicus | Beef | 35 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 691 | 21d | 726 | 45 |
a
The Bovine HapMap Consortium [29].
b
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
c
Zebu Genome Consortium.
d
The actual number of NEL samples passing control criteria was 581: 557 for ZGC and 24 for HapMap. In order to avoid an unbalanced dataset, we decided to keep a final set of 45 NEL: all 24 HapMap samples plus 21 randomly chosen ZGC samples.
f
Final base dataset used for the selective sweep analyses.