An assessment of population structure in eight breeds of cattle using a whole genome SNP panel

Stephanie D McKay^1,2 , Robert D Schnabel² , Brenda M Murdoch¹ , Lakshmi K Matukumalli^3,4 , Jan Aerts⁵ , Wouter Coppieters⁶ , Denny Crews^1,7 , Emmanuel Dias Neto^8,9 , Clare A Gill¹⁰ , Chuan Gao¹⁰ , Hideyuki Mannen¹¹ , Zhiquan Wang¹ , Curt P Van Tassell³ , John L Williams¹² , Jeremy F Taylor² and Stephen S Moore¹

¹  Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

²  Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

³  Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, USA

⁴  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA

⁵  Division of Genetics and Genomics, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Midlothian, Scotland, UK

⁶  Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, 4000-Liege, Belgium

⁷  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

⁸  Instituto de Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

⁹  Genoa Biotecnologia S/A, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

¹⁰  Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

¹¹  Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Japan

¹²  Parco Tecnologico Padano, Via Einstein, Polo Universitario, Lodi, Italy