To assess whether the results obtained here were a
specific feature of the Australian population, we repeated
the analyses with an independent sample of Angus,
Santa Gertrudis and Brahman animals from the Bovine
HapMap dataset [3,10]. Results for all analyses on these
populations showed high concordance with LD observed
in the Australian populations for both the autosomes
and BTAX (Figures 1 and 2).