Pedigree analysis of Cashmere goat breed of South Khorasan

Figures & data

Figure 1. Number of founders and number of individuals across herds.

Figure 2. The number of animals and the number of founders in various herds of Cashmere goat of South Khorasan.

Table 1. Distribution of the inbreeding coefficient in South Khorasan goat breed.

Level of inbreeding, %	Number of animals
0 < F ≤ 5	149
5 < F ≤ 10	13
10 < F ≤ 15	33
15 < F ≤ 20	3
20 < F ≤ 25	2

Table 2. Parameters of probability of gene origin for the reference population in the Cashmere goat breed of South Khorasan.

Item	Value
Number of animals in the reference population	692
Number of ancestors contributing to the reference population	289
Total number of founder animals in the reference population	358
Effective number of founders	88
Effective number of ancestors	60
Number of founder herds in the reference population	3
Effective number of founder herds	1.3
Founder equivalent	315
Founder genome equivalent	42.37
Effective number of non-founders	68.66
Genetic contribution of main ancestor, %	5.02
Number of ancestors explaining 50% of gene pool	34
Number of ancestors explaining 75% of gene pool	84
Number of ancestors explaining 100% of gene pool	289