Figure 1

EHH decay over distance (1) and bifurcation plots (2) in the Italian Holstein non-redundant dataset. (a.1), (b.1) and (c.1) show the decay of haplotype homozygosity as a function of distance for the two most frequent core haplotypes. (a.2), (b.2) and (c.2) show haplotype bifurcation diagrams for the two most frequent core haplotypes at three control regions found to be significant rEHH in our study i.e. (a) polled locus, (b) MC1R gene and (c) casein gene cluster).