Evidence for multiple alleles effecting muscling and fatness at the Ovine GDF8 locus

BMC Genomic Data

Table 2 Allele Frequencies for Three GDF8 SNP

Breed	N ¹	g-41A	g+4036C	g+6723A
		freq	freq	freq
Black Suffolk	12	0.083	0.042	0.000
Coopworth	7	0.500	0.071	0.000
English Leicester	8	0.875	0.333	0.000
Lincoln	4	0.750	0.125	0.125
Merino	45	0.523	0.089	0.000
Poll Dorset	12	0.357	0.143	0.125
Polwarth	8	0.375	0.250	0.000
Romney	8	0.750	0.188	0.000
Southdown	8	0.500	0.188	0.000
Texel	116	0.028	0.009	0.946
Tibetan	21	0.475	0.024	0.000
White Suffolk	77	0.375	0.304	0.093
Totals	326	0.292	0.087	0.340

¹ Number of animals tested per breed.
² Frequencies are given for one of the alleles at each SNP (g-41A, g+4036C and g+6723A).

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