Geographical patterning of sixteen goat breeds from Italy, Albania and Greece assessed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Table 1 Breeds analysed, country of origin and their sample sizes (N), average observed heterozygosity (Ho), average expected heterozygosity (He) and F IS calculated per locus per sample and averaged over populations.

Breed	label	Origin	N	Ho	He	F IS
Argentata dell' Etna²	ARG	Italy	31	0.280	0.322	0.131
Bionda dell' Adamello²	BIO	Italy	31	0.318	0.340	0.066
Camosciata	CAM	Italy	31	0.273	0.330	0.173
Capore	CAP	Albania	31	0.221	0.275	0.197
Dukati	DUK	Albania	31	0.295	0.309	0.047
Girgentana^1,2	GIR	Italy	32	0.274	0.286	0.041
Greek goat	GRG	Greece	31	0.293	0.327	0.104
Grigia molisana^1,2	GMO	Italy	31	0.292	0.306	0.048
Hasi	HAS	Albania	31	0.272	0.307	0.115
Liquenasi	LIQ	Albania	31	0.296	0.301	0.017
Mati	MAT	Albania	30	0.246	0.273	0.100
Muzhake	MUZ	Albania	31	0.259	0.295	0.124
Orobica²	ORO	Italy	31	0.287	0.295	0.030
Sarda	SAR	Italy	31	0.287	0.311	0.078
Skopelos2	SKO	Greece	31	0.177	0.201	0.122
Valdostana^1,2	VAL	Italy	31	0.293	0.308	0.047
Mean				0.273	0.299	0.090

¹ Listed by FAO as endangered or critical http://fao.org. ² Number of breeding females below the EU thresholds (<10000). (Commission Regulation (EC), n. 445/2002).

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