Investigation of the genetic diversity of domestic Capra hircus breeds reared within an early goat domestication area in Iran

Table 2 AMOVA of the goat breeds based on 13 microsatellite loci

Structure	Source of variation	Degrees of freedom	Sum of squares	Squared value	Percentage of variation
7 Iranian breeds	Among groups	4	118.043	0.16213	3.73**
	Among populations within groups	4	42.895	0.08975	2.07***
	Among individuals within populations	308	1277.477	0.05648	1.30^NS
	Within individuals	317	1279.000	4.03470	92.90***
	Total	633	2717.415	4.34305

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