Table 3. Descriptive statistics of the 19 microsatellite loci across nine chicken breeds.

Marker	MAF	Ng	Na	Dg	Ho	He	PIC
LEI0166	0.428	21	9	0.684	0.648	0.640	0.631
MCW0014	0.252	45	18	0.843	0.531	0.653	0.825
MCW0069	0.193	57	20	0.883	0.816	0.766	0.873
MCW0103	0.525	10	8	0.560	0.461	0.489	0.470
MCW0037	0.350	14	8	0.726	0.582	0.644	0.679
MCW0330	0.281	38	16	0.842	0.691	0.718	0.825
LEI0094	0.201	84	29	0.909	0.746	0.784	0.902
MCW0216	0.279	20	10	0.802	0.547	0.540	0.774
LEI0234	0.193	135	54	0.931	0.688	0.848	0.928
MCW0078	0.398	18	10	0.755	0.461	0.531	0.723
MCW0206	0.389	28	11	0.777	0.508	0.530	0.752
ADL0112	0.346	20	11	0.769	0.711	0.565	0.735
LEI0192	0.332	79	40	0.857	0.582	0.714	0.849
ADL0268	0.412	18	9	0.710	0.758	0.675	0.662
MCW0222	0.383	20	7	0.717	0.606	0.652	0.671
MCW0034	0.252	83	27	0.890	0.738	0.769	0.883
MCW0111	0.270	29	14	0.822	0.785	0.651	0.799
MCW0067	0.236	26	11	0.841	0.766	0.671	0.822
MCW0295	0.361	35	12	0.801	0.664	0.735	0.780
Mean±SD	0.320±0.091	41.05±32.68	17.05±12.43	0.796±0.091	0.647±0.111	0.662±0.098	0.767±0.112

MAF, main allele frequency; N_g, number of genotype; N_a, number of alleles per locus; D_g, gene diversity; H_o, observed heterozygosity; H_e, expected heterozygosity; PIC, polymorphism information content. SD, standard deviation.