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 …

Background PLINK is probably the most used program for analyzing SNP genotypes and
runs of homozygosity (ROH), both in human and in animal populations. The last decade …

Background Inbreeding decreases animal performance (inbreeding depression), but not all
inbreeding is expected to be equally harmful. Recent inbreeding is expected to be more …

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 …

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 Inbreeding reduces the fitness of individuals by increasing the frequency of
homozygous deleterious recessive alleles. Some insight into the genetic architecture of …

Background Runs of homozygosity (ROH) have become the state-of-the-art method for
analysis of inbreeding in animal populations. Moreover, ROH are suited to detect signatures …

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 …