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. 2020 Jan 4;11(1):57. doi: 10.3390/genes11010057

Table 1.

Genetic diversity measured by dataset.

Algerian Sheep Datasets French Sheep Datasets French Cattle Datasets
no. of breeds 5 17 7
Microsatellite datasets:
nb. of individuals 113 425 175
nb. of microsatellites 29 21 30
nb. of alleles 343 292 283
mean A (s.d.) 11.83 (13.29) 13.90 (21.59) 9.43 (11.97)
mean HO (s.d.) 0.77 (0.008) 0.73 (0.018) 0.71 (0.015)
mean PIC (s.d.) 0.74 (0.010) 0.70 (0.018) 0.67 (0.018)
mean Ae (s.d.) 5.06 (4.67) 4.46 (3.89) 3.98 (3.02)
SNP datasets:
nb. of individuals * 36 346 152
nb. of SNP 52,412 40,454 52,324
nb. of SNP after filtration 36,493 39,800 47,286
nb. of SNP after Pruning ** 15,560 31,184 24,841
Mean FST from microsatellites datasets (s.d.) 0.048 (<0.001) 0.104 (0.004) 0.076 (<0.001)
Mean FST from SNP datasets (s.d.) 0.048 (<0.001) 0.105 (0.004) 0.078 (<0.001)
r Pearson *** (p-value) 0.87 (0.001) 0.95 (<0.001) 0.77 (<0.001)

no.: number; s.d.: standard deviation; A: number of alleles; HO: observed heterozygosity; PIC: polymorphic information content; Ae: effective number of alleles; *: after filtration (see Material and Methods); **: see Material and Methods; ***: Pearson correlation coefficient between pairwise FST values obtained with the microsatellite dataset and the SNP dataset.