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Table 4 Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) (adjacent (~ 55 KB) and non-syntenic) and effective population size (Ne; determined 20 generations ago) for the selected breed and bloodline groups

From: The genomic structure of isolation across breed, country and strain for important South African and Australian sheep populations

Population

 

N

LDAdjacent

LDNon−Syntenic

Ne20 Gen

Breed

Country

    

 Merino

AUS

918

0.138

0.006

418

 Dorper

 

276

0.177

0.008

225

 Border Leicester

 

542

0.226

0.003

265

 Poll Dorset

 

400

0.224

0.005

128

 White Suffolk

 

247

0.169

0.006

196

 Merino

SA

697

0.156

0.006

304

 Dorper

 

86

0.184

0.016

203

Bloodline

Country

    

 Ultrafine

AUS

270

0.150

0.005

369

 Fine-Medium-1

 

224

0.173

0.009

154

 Fine-Medium-2

 

133

0.174

0.016

178

 Strong

 

291

0.185

0.009

137

 Elsenburg

SA

400

0.185

0.010

173

 Grootfontein

 

115

0.172

0.013

201

 Industry

 

41

0.177

0.028

177

 Cradock

 

127

0.176

0.011

165