Estimates of genomic inbreeding and identification of candidate regions that differ between Chinese indigenous sheep breeds

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for ROH and genomic inbreeding coefficients in five sheep breeds

Breeds	ROH number	ROH length, Mb	F_ROH	F_HOM	\( {r}_{\left({F}_{ROH}-{F}_{HOM}\right)} \)
Breeds	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	\( {r}_{\left({F}_{ROH}-{F}_{HOM}\right)} \)
ALT	42.95 ± 7.52	1.053 ± 1.709	0.0184 ± 0.0081	−0.0121 ± 0.00865	0.868
LTH	77.56 ± 22.90	2.554 ± 5.647	0.0808 ± 0.0810	0.0444 ± 0.0847	0.997
HLB	39.08 ± 6.10	0.929 ± 1.988	0.0148 ± 0.0139	−0.00334 ± 0.0157	0.909
STG	40.08 ± 7.31	1.145 ± 2.386	0.0187 ± 0.0266	−0.000860 ± 0.0286	0.950
TIB	53.70 ± 11.85	0.939 ± 1.951	0.0206 ± 0.0138	−0.0163 ± 0.0250	0.721
ALL	44.93 ± 15.25	1.278 ± 3.055	0.0234 ± 0.0364	0.0129 ± 0.0403	0.960

Note: ALT, LTH, HLB, STG and TIB represent Altay sheep, Large-tailed Han sheep, Hulun Buir sheep, Short-tailed grassland sheep and Tibetan sheep, respectively

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