Whole-genome resource sequences of 57 indigenous Ethiopian goats

Belay, Shumuye; Belay, Gurja; Nigussie, Helen; Jian-Lin, Han; Tijjani, Abdulfatai; Ahbara, Abulgasim M.; Tarekegn, Getinet M.; Woldekiros, Helina S.; Mor, Siobhan; Dobney, Keith; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Hanotte, Olivier; Mwacharo, Joram M.

Abstract

Domestic goats are distributed worldwide, with approximately 35% of the one billion world goat population occurring in Africa. Ethiopia has 52.5 million goats, ~99.9% of which are considered indigenous landraces deriving from animals introduced to the Horn of Africa in the distant past by nomadic herders. They have continued to be managed by smallholder farmers and semi-mobile pastoralists throughout the region. We report here 57 goat genomes from 12 Ethiopian goat populations sampled from different agro-climates. The data were generated through sequencing DNA samples on the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform at a mean depth of 9.71x and 150 bp pair-end reads. In total, ~2 terabytes of raw data were generated, and 99.8% of the clean reads mapped successfully against the goat reference genome assembly at a coverage of 99.6%. About 24.76 million SNPs were generated. These SNPs can be used to study the population structure and genome dynamics of goats at the country, regional, and global levels to shed light on the species’ evolutionary trajectory.

Citation

Belay, S., Belay, G., Nigussie, H., Jian-Lin, H., Tijjani, A., Ahbara, A. M., …Mwacharo, J. M. (2024). Whole-genome resource sequences of 57 indigenous Ethiopian goats. Scientific Data, 11(1), Article 139. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02973-2

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 16, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jan 29, 2024
• Publication Date: Jan 29, 2024
• Deposit Date: Apr 23, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 23, 2024
• Journal: Scientific Data
• Electronic ISSN: 2052-4463
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 139
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02973-2
• Keywords: Animal breeding; DNA sequencing
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/30926810
• Publisher URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-02973-2
• Additional Information: Received: 5 October 2023; Accepted: 16 January 2024; First Online: 29 January 2024; : The authors declare no competing interests.