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标题：Whole genome sequences of 234 indigenous African chickens from Ethiopia
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作者：almas Gheyas ; adriana Vallejo-trujillo ; adebabay Kebede 等
期刊名称：Scientific Data
电子版ISSN：2052-4463
出版年度：2022
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：1-9
DOI：10.1038/s41597-022-01129-4
语种：English
出版社：Nature Publishing Group
摘要：Indigenous chickens predominate poultry production in africa. although preferred for backyard farming because of their adaptability to harsh tropical environments, these populations sufer from relatively low productivity compared to commercial lines. Genome analyses can unravel the genetic potential of improvement of these birds for both production and resilience traits for the beneft of African poultry farming systems . Here we report whole-genome sequences of 234 indigenous chickens from 24 Ethiopian populations distributed under diverse agro-climatic conditions . The data represents over eight terabytes of paired-end sequences from the Ilumina HiSeqX platform with an average coverage of about 57X . Almost 99% of the sequence reads could be mapped against the chicken reference genome (GRCg6a), confrming the high quality of the data . Variant calling detected around 15 million SNPs, of which about 86% are known variants (i .e ., present in public databases), providing further confdence on the data quality. the dataset provides an excellent resource for investigating genetic diversity and local environmental adaptations with important implications for breed improvement and conservation purposes.