posted on 2023-11-30, 07:49authored byGordon Spangler
Illumina Ovine 50K data from West African, St Croix, and Bergamesca sheep used in conjunction with data from The International Sheep Genome Consortium to determine the ancestry/origin of Caribbean hair sheep.
Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: WAD_50k.
File Name: CaribbeanHair_dataset.zip
Resource Description: Illumina 50k Ovine SNP chip data for St Croix, West African, and Bergamesca sheep.
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Temporal Extent Start Date
2011-01-01
Temporal Extent End Date
2017-01-01
Frequency
irregular
Theme
Not specified
ISO Topic Category
farming
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
genome; sheep breeds; genome-wide association study; ancestry; Western Africa; sheep; single nucleotide polymorphism
Spangler, Gordon (2017). Whole Genome Structural Analysis of Caribbean hair sheep reveals quantitative link to West African Ancestry. Ag Data Commons. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1351110