. 2015 Aug 18;8(8):994–1005. doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2015.994-1005

Table-2.

Genetic parameters measured per microsatellite locus.

Locus	Allelic range (bp)	N	Na	Rt	H_E	H_O	F_IS (WC)	PIC	HWE

									Chi-square value
BM1818	274-292	89	10	6.482	0.840	0.876	−0.049	0.815	3.2851^NS
BM2113	140-164	85	9	6.578	0.847	0.671	0.194	0.823	24.9024^**
ETH10	225-241	94	8	5.887	0.808	0.670	0.141	0.778	10.9206^NS
ETH152	198-224	96	9	5.247	0.775	0.708	−0.020	0.737	29.2500^***
ETH225	158-176	89	7	5.005	0.739	0.640	0.103^*	0.699	9.5284^NS
HEL1	121-141	102	11	6.369	0.844	0.814	0.023	0.820	8.9110^NS
HEL9	164-190	102	14	7.318	0.870	0.804	0.063^*	0.851	11.6563^NS
INRA063	194-206	92	6	3.745	0.608	0.446	0.212	0.551	19.9543^*
INRA037	132-154	74	12	5.750	0.802	0.716	0.048^*	0.769	15.2741^*
MM12	119-157	90	13	6.381	0.781	0.778	−0.014	0.750	4.9452^NS
TGLA53	172-204	58	16	8.204	0.866	0.724	0.136	0.847	13.0689^NS
Mean		88.27	10.455	6.088	0.798	0.713	0.073^*	0.767	151.6963^***

Parameters estimated per microsatellite locus across four Senegalese cattle breeds. N=Number of individuals typed per locus, Na=Observed number of alleles, Rt=Allelic richness, H_E=Unbiased expected heterozygosity, H_O=Observed heterozygosity, F_IS (f)=Amount of inbreeding within population computed following Weir and Cockerham, 1984, PIC=Polymorphic information content, χ²HWE=Chi-square values of test for HWE, NS: p>0.05=Not significant,

p<0.05=Significant,

^**

p<0.01=Very significant,

^***

p<0.001=Highly significant