Recent population history in Swedish cattle breeds
Dolapo Adepoju·Martin Johnsson·JIngemar Ohlsson·Tomas Klingström·E. Rius‐Vilarrasa·Anna M. Johansson
Abstract Background In genetic terms, the history of a population can be described by its effective population size over time. We know that domestic cattle have gone through dramatic changes in recent history, including intensifying selection in modern breeding programs and replacement of traditional breeds. In this work, we use linkage disequilibrium-based methods to estimate recent population history from genotype data in Swedish cattle breeds, as well as international Holstein and Jersey catt