Selective footprints and genes relevant to cold adaptation and other phenotypic traits are unscrambled in the genomes of divergently selected chicken breeds

Table 1 Descriptive statistics for genetic diversity indices in the four breeds studied¹

Breed	n	H_O (M ± SE)	_UH_E (M ± SE)	A_R (M ± SE)	_UF_IS [CI 95%]
OMF	30	0.305 ± 0.001	0.305 ± 0.001	1.847 ± 0.002	0.001 [–0.001; 0.003]
RUW	64	0.332 ± 0.001	0.330 ± 0.001	1.927 ± 0.001	–0.004 [–0.006; − 0.002]
USH	40	0.246 ± 0.001	0.263 ± 0.001	1.787 ± 0.002	0.055 [0.053; 0.057]
WCR	22	0.373 ± 0.001	0.379 ± 0.001	1.969 ± 0.001	0.015 [0.012; 0.018]

¹ Breeds: OMF Orloff Mille Fleur, RUW Russian White, USH Ushanka, WCR White Cornish. n number of individuals, H_O observed heterozygosity, M Mean value, SE Standard error, _UH_E unbiased expected heterozygosity, A_R rarefied allelic richness, _UF_IS unbiased inbreeding coefficient [CI 95%, range variation of _UF_IS coefficient at a confidence interval of 95%]. All pairwise breed differences were significant at P < 0.001

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