A genetically unique Chinese cattle population shows evidence of common ancestry with wild species when analysed with a reduced ascertainment bias SNP panel

• Mario Barbato ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mario.barbato@unicatt.it (MB); paolo.ajmone@unicatt.it (PAM)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7203-1549

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• Michael P. Reichel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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• Matilde Passamonti,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

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• Wai Yee Low,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0749-765X

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• Licia Colli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy, Research Center on Biodiversity and Ancient DNA–BioDNA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

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• Rick Tearle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2243-5091

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• John L. Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Davies Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, Australia

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• Paolo Ajmone Marsan

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mario.barbato@unicatt.it (MB); paolo.ajmone@unicatt.it (PAM)

  Affiliations Department of Animal Science, Food and Technology–DIANA, and Nutrigenomics and Proteomics Research Center–PRONUTRIGEN, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy, Research Center on Biodiversity and Ancient DNA–BioDNA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

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