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Table 1 Description of pedigrees

From: A practical approach to detect ancestral haplotypes in livestock populations

Breed

Population

Ng

Np

MMG (range)

MCG (range)

MEG (range)

Ne

Fleckvieh

-

315

8137

4.7 (0–22)

1.3 (0–6)

2.2 (0–9.1)

239.0

Simmental

-

158

5341

4.3 (0–21)

1.3 (0–7)

2.2 (0–10.5)

174.6

Brown-Swiss

Austria

20

1257

3.9 (0–18)

1.3 (0–6)

2.1 (0–9.7)

124.9

Germany

54

2677

4.9 (0–20)

1.4 (0–6)

2.4 (0–10.2)

127.6

Italy

77

3482

4.0 (0–20)

1.3 (0–7)

2.1 (0–9.9)

122.5

Switzerland

184

5307

4.6 (0–20)

1.5 (0–7)

2.4 (0–10.5)

111.0

USA

77

1906

4.3 (0–19)

1.5 (0–7)

2.3 (0–10.2)

93.5

  1. Number of genotyped animals (Ng), number of animals in the pedigree (Np), average number of maximum generations (MMG), average number of complete generations (MCG) and average number of equivalent generations (MEG = sum of (1/2)n computed across all known ancestors, where n is the number of generations separating the individual to each known ancestor). Effective sizes (Ne) were computed using the equivalent generations