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. 2015 Nov 11;116(3):255–264. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.94

Table 1. Average coefficients of inbreeding, runs of homozygosity and genetic diversity in sheep and goats.

  Goats
Sheep
  Barki Other exoticsa Boer Barki Romney Texel Corriedale
Sample sizes 68 59 34 59 50 26 25
Froh 0.02 (0.07)b 0.03 (0.06) 0.09 (0.03) 0.02 (0.03) 0.05 (0.01) 0.10 (0.02) 0.03 (0.03)
Fgeno 0.01 (0.05) 0.09 (0.07) 0.19 (0.05) −0.00 (0.04) 0.08 (0.01) 0.25 (0.02) −0.05 (0.03)
r c 0.80 0.85 0.84 0.76 0.77 0.65 0.83
Mean length of ROH (Mb) 1.48 (2.8) 4.19 (4.5) 10.61 (8.4) 4.40 (7.6) 12.49 (8.3) 16.48 (9.9) 14.25 (4.0)
Individuals lacking ROH 72% 6% 0% 58% 2% 0% 17%
Ho 0.40 (0.12) 0.42 (0.08) 0.35 (0.02) 0.37 (0.14) 0.33 (0.03) 0.22 (0.03) 0.32 (0.03)
He 0.40 (0.11) 0.44 (0.07) 0.43 (0.11) 0.37 (0.13) 0.33 (0.03) 0.31 (0.03) 0.30 (0.03)
Ne (5)d 127 87 66 130 45 21 30
Ne (70)d 1531 729 230 1331 374 161 244
Private allelic richness (pAr) 0.016 0.007 0.003 0.017 0.008 0.002 0.005

Abbreviations: Ho, Observed homozygosity; He, Expected homozygosity; ROH, runs of homozygosity.

a

Other exotics=Myotonic, Spanish, Kiko, LaMancha.

b

Numbers in parenthesis represent standard deviations.

c

r=Correlation coefficient between ROH-based inbreeding coefficient (Froh) and genotype-based inbreeding coefficient (Fgeno).

d

Ne=Effective population size (5 or 70 generations ago).