GBS Gender Predict

Using genotyping-by-sequencing to predict gender in animals

R code for predicting gender in animals with XX?XY determination systems using genotyping-by-sequencing data that accompanies the paper by Bilton et al. (2018).

The Folders are:

• Data: The used in the publication by Bilton et al. (2018)
• Example: Rcode for reproducing the results in Bilton et al. (2018)
• Scripts: R scripts for performing gender predicting using GBS data
• Supplementary: Additional Supplementary Files for the publication by Bilton et al. (2018)

Funding

• Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment via its funding of the "Genomics for Production & Security in a Biological Economy" programme (Contract ID C10X1306)
• DEERresearch New Zealand via the "Hitting Targets", "Deer Progeny Test" and "Deer Select" research programmes

References

Bilton, T.P., Chappell, A.J., Clarke, S.M., Brauning, B., Dodds, K.G., McEwan, J.C. & Rowe, S.J. (2018). Using genotyping-by-sequencing to predict gender in animals. Animal Genetics 50(3):307-310