Background: Merino and Merino-derived sheep breeds have been widely distributed across the world, both as purebred and admixed populations. They represent an economically and historically important
we employed the Illumina Goat SNP70K BeadChip to investigate the occurrence and distribution of runs of homozygosity (ROH) in 384 Inner Mongolia Cashmere goats (Erlangshan subtype), estimated genome-b
