Overview for Ovis aries (Sheep)

The domestic sheep (Ovis aries), has a great importance in agriculture especially in the fields of wool, meat, and milk production. The ovine genome is organized in 26 autosomes and two sex chromosomes, of which only the X chromosome has been analyzed. In agReg-SNPdb, we store 20,359 genes and 50,164,898 SNPs.

Ensembl Assembly (Oar_rambouillet_v1.0)

Statistics

(Last updated on 21.05.2021)

Number of chromosomes	27
Number of genes	20,359
Number of SNPs	50,164,898

Click on a chromosome to download the data stored in agReg-SNPdb for the complete chromosome

Chromosome	Number of SNPs	Number of Genes
1	5,433,203	2016
2	4,746,618	1472
3	4,207,093	2012
4	2,314,529	680
5	2,058,042	1190
6	2,424,652	534
7	1,892,753	842
8	1,783,264	436
9	1,932,947	443
10	1,774,680	324
11	1,118,272	1158
12	1,518,533	583
13	1,580,648	709
14	1,210,055	1192
15	1,629,504	880
16	1,491,852	291
17	1,489,376	596
18	1,295,430	480
19	1,179,170	514
20	1,062,273	727
21	1,028,797	637
22	1,042,126	369
23	1,324,926	264
24	857,387	678
25	954,053	279
26	944,014	218
X	1,870,701	835

Distribution of rSNPs relative to the TSS