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We identified selective sweeps that primarily appear to have occurred following breed formation events.
This sampling strategy was employed to ensure that there would be minimal effects of recent introgression between the breeds following breed formation.
The 8 incorrectly assigned individuals involved the following breed pairs: British Saddleback & Large Black (3), Landrace & Welsh (3), Landrace & Large White (1) and Middle White & Large White (1).
This further supports our conjecture that the design of the BovineSNP50 assay to include common variation makes it primarily suitable for the detection of sweeps that have occurred following breed formation.
Mutations in these behavior-associated genes may confer improved temperament when cattle are handled by humans and these would have been strongly selected following breed formation to develop more manageable animals.
Assuming, as is most likely, that each SNP appeared once in the evolutionary history of the dog, it follows that the 199 SNP common to all breeds probably arose before the separation of the six breeds and that most of the private SNP arose following breed separation.
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