Genetic studies of livestock populations focus on questions of domestication, within‐and
among‐breed diversity, breed history and adaptive variation. In this review, we describe the …

Copy number variation (CNV) might be one of the main contributors to phenotypic diversity
and evolutionary adaptation in animals and plants, employing a wide variety of mechanisms …

The success of Genome Wide Association Studies in the discovery of sequence variation
linked to complex traits in humans has increased interest in high throughput SNP …

Background Copy number variation (CNV) represents another important source of genetic
variation complementary to single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). High-density SNP array …

Recent studies in humans and other model organisms have demonstrated that structural
variants (SVs) comprise a substantial proportion of variation among individuals of each …

Abstract Background Domestic goats (Capra hircus) have been selected to play an essential
role in agricultural production systems, since being domesticated from their wild progenitor …

Goat plays a crucial role in human livelihoods, being a major source of meat, milk, fiber, and
hides, particularly under adverse climatic conditions. The goat genomics related to the …

We carried out a cross species cattle–sheep array comparative genome hybridization
experiment to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in the sheep genome analysing ewes …

Background In recent years, genome-wide association studies have successfully uncovered
single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with complex traits such as diseases …

Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) are important and widely distributed in
the genome. CNV detection opens a new avenue for exploring genes associated with …