Misidentification of runs of homozygosity islands in cattle caused by interference with copy number variation or large intermarker distances.
Wilson NandoloYuri T UtsunomiyaGábor MészárosMaria WurzingerNegar KhayadzadehRafaela B P TorrecilhaHenry A MulindwaTimothy N GondwePatrik WaldmannMaja FerenčakovićJosé F GarciaBenjamin D RosenDerek BickhartCurt P van TassellIno CurikJohann SölknerPublished in: Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE (2018)
Our findings show that a significant proportion of the ROH islands in the bovine genome are artefacts due to CNV or SNP coverage gaps.