Half a century ago, a seminal article on the hitchhiking effect by Smith and Haigh
inaugurated the concept of the selection signature. Selective sweeps are characterised by …

The chicken continues to hold its position as a leading model organism within many areas of
research, as well as being a major source of protein for human consumption. The First …

f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

Background Genome-wide association studies do not always replicate well across
populations, limiting the generalizability of polygenic risk scores (PRS). Despite higher …

Abstract Background The UK Biobank is a large prospective cohort, based in the UK, that
has deep phenotypic and genomic data on roughly a half a million individuals. Included in …

Marker-assisted selection (MAS) has been widely used in the last few decades in plant
breeding programs for the mapping and introgression of genes for economically important …

Telomeres are terminal DNA regions of chromosomes that prevent chromosomal fusion and
degradation during cell division. In cattle, leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with …

With the rapid and significant cost reduction of next-generation sequencing, low-coverage
whole-genome sequencing (lcWGS), followed by genotype imputation, is becoming a cost …

The cultivated strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa) arose through a hybridization of two wild
American octoploid strawberry species in a French garden in the 1750s. Since then …

Abstract Background German Black Pied cattle (DSN) are an endangered dual-purpose
breed which was largely replaced by Holstein cattle due to their lower milk yield. DSN cattle …