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 ge
Genotype datasets (.ped and .map files) including phenotypes of body condition score (BCS), lactation persistency (LP) and logarithmically-transformed milk somatic cell count (SCC) from 317 Chios and
We used genotype data from the caprine 50k Illumina BeadChip for the assessment of genetic diversity within and between 10 local Swiss goat breeds. Three different cluster methods allowed the goat sam
Blood samples of forty eight female GRF goats were collected and animals were genotyped with the Illumina GoatSNP50 BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) containing 53,347 Single Nucleotide Polymorp
