About the Authors

Gwenola Tosser-Klopp

Gwenola.Tosser@toulouse.inra.fr (GTK); atcgnmbi@aliyun.com (WZ)

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Philippe Bardou

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, Sigenae, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Olivier Bouchez

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, GeT-PlaGe, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Cédric Cabau

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, Sigenae, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Richard Crooijmans

Affiliation Wageningen University, Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Yang Dong

Affiliation Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming, China

Cécile Donnadieu-Tonon

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, GeT-PlaGe, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France

André Eggen

Affiliation Illumina Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Henri C. M. Heuven

Affiliation Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Saadiah Jamli

Affiliation Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Strategic Livestock Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abdullah Johari Jiken

Affiliation Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Strategic Livestock Research Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Christophe Klopp

Affiliations INRA, Sigenae, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, UR 0875, Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Cynthia T. Lawley

Affiliation Illumina Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

John McEwan

Affiliation AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Center, Mosgiel, New Zealand

Patrice Martin

Affiliations INRA, UMR1313 Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative, Jouy en Josas, France, AgroParisTech, UMR 1313 Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative, Jouy en Josas, France

Carole R. Moreno

Affiliation INRA, UPR0631, Station d’Amélioration Génétique des Animaux, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Philippe Mulsant

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Ibouniyamine Nabihoudine

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, INRA, Sigenae, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Eric Pailhoux

Affiliations INRA, UMR1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France, ENVA, UMR1198 Biologie du Développement et Reproduction, Jouy en Josas, France

Isabelle Palhière

Affiliation INRA, UPR0631, Station d’Amélioration Génétique des Animaux, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Rachel Rupp

Affiliation INRA, UPR0631, Station d’Amélioration Génétique des Animaux, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Julien Sarry

Affiliations INRA, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France, ENVT, UMR444, Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Brian L. Sayre

Affiliation Virginia State University, Department of Biology, Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America

Aurélie Tircazes

Affiliation INRA, UPR0631, Station d’Amélioration Génétique des Animaux, Castanet-Tolosan, France

Jun Wang

Affiliation Bejing Genome Institute, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Wen Wang

Affiliations Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming, China, Bejing Genome Institute, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Wenguang Zhang

Gwenola.Tosser@toulouse.inra.fr (GTK); atcgnmbi@aliyun.com (WZ)

Affiliations Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming, China, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

and the International Goat Genome Consortium

Membership of the International Goat Genome Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

André Eggen and Cynthia T. Lawley are employees of Illumina, Inc. This work led to the development of a goat 50K SNP chip, sold by Illumina to any customer. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CRM PM IP RR. Performed the experiments: OB CDT JS AT. Analyzed the data: PB CC CK IN. Wrote the paper: GTK JME. SNP and genomic sequences: RC YD HH SJ AJJ JW WW WZ. Chip Design: AE CTL GTK. Consortium expertise: JME CTL. SNPs from ESTs: PM EP BS. Coordination of the project: GTK.