The effect of desiccation on population fitness was assessed by running life-table experiments on cohorts established from the ancestor population (M0, used for reference) and from the H and D lines after four (M4), eight (M8), and twelve (M12) subsequent desiccations, that correspond to 4, 8, and 12 months respectively.
We calculated SMRs for individuals 20 or more years of age for individual villages or groups of villages, with SW Taiwan data used for the reference population.
The annotated variants from our genomes were used to detect overlapping regions with the mouse genome array data for reference populations and hence used for introgression analysis.
Studies often used different reference populations for age adjustment of incidence rates.
Ten subsets of 50 randomly selected animals that explained between 68.9% and 71.9% of the gene pool of the entire data set were used as reference populations to impute genotypes for 747 validation animals on chromosome 20.
Origin of the 71 anchor markers used for the comparison between the genomes of Prunus and diploid Fragaria using the reference populations (T×E for Prunus and FV×FN for Fragaria) and mapping strategies used: with the whole population ("mapped") or by bin mapping ("bin mapped").
We made efforts to ensure that our study population was healthy, and therefore it can be used as reference population for future studies.
This database was used for construction of reference population means, regression coefficients, and weights used in the adjustment procedure.
Hence, while for the CGH array two samples were hybridized against our bull, a different population was used as the reference population for calling CNVs using the SNP platform and again, for CNV-seq, a different animal was tested against our bull.
Thus, we conclude that having a genotyped sire is not the main cause of the differences in imputation accuracies for crossbred animals when imputation used a reference population that consisted of Landrace pigs only compared to Yorkshire pigs only.
