selective signatures in whole genome can help us to understand the mechanisms of selection and to identify the genomic regions that have been under natural or artificial selection during long years. the objective of this study was to identify the genomic regions that have been under artificial and natural selection in baluchi and zel sheep breeds. 143 sheep from baluchi (n=96) and zel breeds (n...

introduction: genomic selection refers to selection decisions based on genomic breeding values (gebv). the gebv are calculated as the sum of the effects of dense genetic markers across the entire genome, thereby potentially capturing all the quantitative trait loci (qtl) that contribute to variation in a trait. the qtl effects, inferred from markers, are first estimated in a large reference pop...

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is bases of genomic selection, genomic marker imputation, marker assisted selection (MAS), quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, parentage testing and whole genome association studies. The Particular alleles at closed loci have a tendency to be co-inherited. In linked loci this pattern leads to association between alleles in population which is known as LD. Two metr...

genomic selection is a method to predict the breeding values of individuals using a large number of single nucleotide polymorphism markers. the cost of the high-density marker panel genotyping is very high, which prevents the widely application of genomic selection. the present simulation study was carried out to evaluate the use of low to medium marker density panels to predict direct genomic ...

In order to have successful application of genomic selection, reference population and marker density should be chosen properly. This study purpose was to investigate the accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values in terms of low (5K), intermediate (50K) and high (777K) densities in the simulated populations, when different scenarios were applied about the reference populations selecting. Af...