Table 3.

Genetic diversity of the 12 bp indel within the bovine LOC100847835 promoter region in the four cattle breeds.

Breeds	Genotypic frequencies			Allelic frequencies		Ho	Ne	PIC	HWE
	DD	ID	II	D	I				P-value
Shandong black cattle (516)	0.833	0.161	0.006	0.914	0.086	0.842	1.187	0.145	0.294
Luxi cattle (59)	0.407	0.492	0.102	0.653	0.347	0.547	1.830	0.351	0.646
Bohai black cattle (60)	0.600	0.400	/	0.800	0.200	0.680	1.471	0.269	0.500
Mengshan cattle (37)	0.811	0.189	/	0.905	0.095	0.829	1.207	0.157	0.313

Numbers in the brackets behind the breed indicate the number of individuals.

Ho, observed heterozygosity; Ne, expected heterozygosity; PIC, polymorphism information content; HWE, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.