Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of 12 Asian and nine Middle East sheep breeds based on 36,711 autosomal SNPs identified by LD-based SNP pruning.
(A) Principle component analysis of 550 individuals. The first (PC1) and second (PC2) principal components are shown. Each letter presented a breed. a: Bhyanglung; b: Baruwal; c: Tibetan; d: Changthangi; e: Lampuchhre; f: Kage; g: BangladeshiBGE; h: BangladeshiGarole; i: Deccani; j: Sumatra; k: Garut; l: IndianGarole; m: Qezel; n: AfecAssaf; o: Afshari; p: LocalAwassi; q: Karakas; r: Norduz; s: Moghani; t: Sakiz; u: CyprusFatTail. (B) Unrooted neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of sheep breeds. The 12 sheep breeds labeled with blue color are Asian sheep and the nine breeds labeled with brown color are Middle East sheep.
