A heuristic method to identify runs of homozygosity associated with reduced performance in livestock.
Jeremy Howard, Francesco Tiezzi, Yijian Huang, Kent A. Gray, Christian Maltecca
The paper introduces a heuristic method to identify runs of homozygosity (ROH) linked to reduced performance in livestock and shows it outperforms genome-wide inbreeding metrics.
Journal of Animal Science · Sep 28, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics