A genome-wide scan for signatures of differential artificial selection in ten cattle breeds

Table 1 Collected breeds and samples

Breed	Code	Purpose	Origin	Ng( Na)	mUAR	aUAR^d)
Anatolian Black	ABB	Artificially unselected	Turkey	48 (43)	0.045	-0.024
Illyrian Mountain Buša	IMB	Artificially unselected	Albania	52 (43)	0.177	-0.024
German Fleckvieh	DFV	Dairy-beef	South Germany	723 (50)	0.099	-0.020
Original Braunvieh	OBV	Dairy-beef	Switzerland	48 (35)	0.191	-0.029
Murnau-Werdenfelser	MWF	Dairy-beef	South Germany	106 (46)	0.199	-0.021
Franken Gelbvieh	FGV	Dairy-beef	Central Germany	139 (50)	0.156	-0.020
Braunvieh ^a)	BBV	Dairy	South Germany	568 (50)	0.077	-0.020
Red Holstein	RH	Dairy	North Germany	62 (50)	0.101	-0.020
Blanc-Bleu Belge	BBB	Beef	Belgium	47 (31)	0.148	-0.032
Galloway	GLW	Beef	Scotland ^b)	47 (32)	0.160	-0.033
Sum	10	4	3 ^c)	1840 (430)

Breed name and code, breeding purpose, geographic origin of breed (Origin), number of samples genotyped (Ng) and number of samples used for selection signature analyses (Na) as well as maximum UAR (mUAR) and average UAR (aUAR) for each breed.
^a)German Braunvieh upgraded by US American Brown-Swiss.
^b)Originating from Scotland but sampled in Germany.
^c)Three geographic origins representing the north-western, the alpine, and the south-eastern regions of Europe.
^d)Negative relationships are caused by taking the current generation as base population and cannot be interpreted as probabilities but as the correlation of homologous alleles in different gametes. (for details see [35]).