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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Anim. Sci.
Sec. Animal Breeding and Genetics
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fanim.2024.1468575

West African cattle share non-random Heterozygosity-Rich Regions islands enriched on adaptation-related genes whether their different origins

Provisionally accepted
Katherine D. Arias Katherine D. Arias 1Ivan Fernandez Ivan Fernandez 1Amadou Traoré Amadou Traoré 2Felix Goyache Felix Goyache 1*
  • 1 Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Villaviciosa, Spain
  • 2 Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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    Heterozygosity-Rich Regions; N'DamaBF, N'Dama cattle sampled in the Comoé province of Burkina Faso; N'DamaCo, N'Dama cattle sampled in the Bas-Congo province of Congo; Qtaurine, admixture class including individuals with admixture coefficients higher than 0.8; Qzebu, admixture class including individuals with admixture coefficients lower than 0.1; tHRR, HRR considered relevant at the taurine cattle level; waHRR, HRR considered relevant at the West African cattle level; zHRR, HRR considered relevant at the zebu cattle level; ZPeulBe, Zebu Peul cattle sampled in the Alibori province of Benin; ZPeulBF, Zebu Peul cattle 23 sampled in the Dori province of Burkina Faso.

    Keywords: AC, annotation cluster, BTA, bovine chromosome, HRR, taurine cattle, Zebu cattle, Heterozygosity-Rich Regions islands, admixture, Enrichment analyses, candidate genes

    Received: 22 Jul 2024; Accepted: 31 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Arias, Fernandez, Traoré and Goyache. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Felix Goyache, Servicio Regional de Investigación y Desarrollo Agroalimentario (SERIDA), Villaviciosa, 33300, Spain

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