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 …

Goats and sheep are versatile domesticates that have been integrated into diverse
environments and production systems. Natural and artificial selection have shaped the …

Copy number variations (CNVs) affect a wide range of phenotypic traits; however, CNVs in
or near segmental duplication regions are often intractable. Using a read depth approach …

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 …

Background Copy number variation (CNV) is an important source of structural variation in
the mammalian genome. CNV assays present a new method to explore the genomic …

Chinese indigenous sheep can be classified into three types based on tail morphology: fat-
tailed, fat-rumped, and thin-tailed sheep, of which the typical breeds are large-tailed Han …

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 …