Table 2.

Comparison of our study with six recent sheep CNV reports using various platforms

Study	Platform	Breed	Sample	CNVR count	CNVR length (Mb)	Overlapping CNVR count with present study	Overlapping percentage
Fontanesi et al. (2011) [7]	aCGH	6	11	135	10.56	17	12.59%
Liu et al. (2013) [13]	SNP50	3	327	238	60.35	132	55.46%
Ma et al. (2015) [14]	SNP50	8	160	111	13.76	31	27.93%
Jenkins et al. (2016) [15]	aCGH	6	30	3488	66.27	153	4.39%
Zhu et al. (2016) [16]	SNP600	3	110	490	81.04	219	44.69%
Ma et al. (2017) [11]	SNP600	1	48	1296	120.53	424	32.72%
This study	Illumina HiSeq 4000	3	32	7228	56.06	n.a.	n.a.