Genetic characterisation of the Connemara pony and the Warmblood horse using a within-breed clustering approach

Table 3 Estimates of effective population size in selected CP and WB genetic groups

	Molecular co-ancestry		Historical N_e intercept (N_eH)	Group sample size	\(\frac{{N}_{eb}}{{N}_{eH}}\)
	N_eb	CI	Historical N_e intercept (N_eH)	Group sample size	\(\frac{{N}_{eb}}{{N}_{eH}}\)
C1	8.6	8.3–8.9	67.8	10	0.13
C2	6.1	5.9–6.3	40.5	9	0.15
C3	5.7	5.5–5.9	78.3	15	0.07
W3	6.0	5.9–6.2	45.6	11	0.13

CP Connemara pony, WB Warmblood horse, N_e effective population size; N_eb effective number of breeders, CI confidence interval calculated using a jackknife approach [82]

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