Pourya Davoudi

Characterizing Runs of Homozygosity and Inbreeding in American Mink Using SNP Data and Pedigree Information

ABSTRACT Inbreeding increases the likelihood of deleterious recessive alleles becoming homozygous and consequently affecting economically important traits. Runs of homozygosity (ROH), the continuous homozygous segments of the genome and the higher than expected homozygosity (HOM)...