Evaluation of approaches for identifying population informative markers from high density SNP Chips

BMC Genomic Data

Table 1 Information on the breeds

	Breed	N	Animal resources of N	n	Purpose	Origin	Distribution	Sampling Locality
1	Angus - British	23	several Scottish farms; majority different sires	23	Beef	Scotland (UK)	Global	UK
2	Angus - American	6124	Registered bulls and steers	25	Beef	Scotland (UK)	Global	USA
3	Brown Swiss	74	24 HapMap¹ (3 trios); remaining no pedigree	24	Dairy	Switzerland	Alpine Europe, Americas	USA
4	Charolais	135	26 HapMap¹ (3 trios); remaining registered	25	Beef	France	France, USA, Brazil, RSA	USA
5	Finnish Ayrshire	444	215 unrelated; 17 paternal half-sib families with average of 13 progeny per sire	10	Dairy	Scotland (UK)	Global	Finland
6	Guernsey	23	21 HapMap¹; remaining unrelated	21	Dairy	Island of Guernsey (UK)	USA, UK, Oceania, RSA	UK
7	Hereford	143	32 HapMap¹ (4 trios); remaining registered	25	Beef	UK	Global	USA
8	Holstein	18904	Registered	25	Dairy	Netherlands	Global	USA
9	Jersey	93	28 HapMap¹ (3 trios); remaining registered	28	Dairy	Island of Jersey (UK)	Global	USA
10	Limousin	1621	All registered	25	Beef	France	France, UK, USA	USA
11	Norwegian Red	21	HapMap¹ (1 trio)	21	Dual Purpose	Norway	Norway	Norway
12	Piedmontese	29	24 HapMap¹ (3 trios); remaining unrelated	19	Beef	Italy	Italy	Italy
13	Red Angus	15	Registered	15	Beef	Scotland (UK)	USA, Australia	USA
14	Red Poll	23	Registered, a few shared sires and dams	23	Beef	UK		UK
15	Shorthorn	108	Registered (7 trios)	25	Dual Purpose	UK	Global	USA
16	Simmental	777	104 sires; 673 steers from 24 sires	25	Beef	Switzerland	Global	USA
17	Welsh Black	32	several Welsh farms; unrelated	25	Beef	Wales (UK)		UK
	Total:	28589		384

N, reference sample size (used to estimate the allele frequencies), ¹ HapMap individuals are unrelated except where indicated by 'trio' [45], and, n, number of individuals used in assignment testing.

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