This review presents a broader approach to the implementation and study of runs of
homozygosity (ROH) in animal populations, focusing on identifying and characterizing ROH …

Inbreeding, by virtue of its consequence on traits of interest, is a topic of major interest for
geneticists and animal breeders. Based on meta‐analysis conducted on 57 studies and …

Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

Domestication and the subsequent selection of animals for either economic or
morphological features can leave a variety of imprints on the genome of a population …

Increased inbreeding is an inevitable consequence of selection in livestock populations. The
analysis of high‐density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) facilitates the identification …

Background While autozygosity as a consequence of selection is well understood, there is
limited information on the ability of different methods to measure true inbreeding. In the …

Background Runs of homozygosity are long, uninterrupted stretches of homozygous
genotypes that enable reliable estimation of levels of inbreeding (ie, autozygosity) based on …

Background Levels of inbreeding in cattle populations have increased in the past due to the
use of a limited number of bulls for artificial insemination. High levels of inbreeding lead to …

The intensive selection programs for milk made possible by mass artificial insemination
increased the similarity among the genomes of North American (NA) Holsteins tremendously …

Genetic erosion is a major threat to biodiversity because it can reduce fitness and ultimately
contribute to the extinction of populations. Here, we explore the use of quantitative metrics to …