Genetic components of grey cattle in Estonia as revealed by microsatellite analysis using two Bayesian clustering methods

Table 2 Membership proportions (Q) of the 11 grey cattle in Estonia for the 6 genetic clusters

Animals	Cluster 1 (Latvian Brown)^a	Cluster 2 (Latvian Blue)	Cluster 3 (Latvian Danish Red)	Cluster 4 (Estonian Native)	Cluster 5 (Estonian Red)	Cluster 6 (Finnish Holstein-Friesian)
Le1	0.015(0.00)^b	0.003(0.00)	0.006(0.00)	0.005(0.00)	0.008(0.00)	0.963(1.00)^c
Le2	0.015(0.01)	0.015(0.04)	0.081(0.40)	0.015(0.03)	0.145(0.05)	0.729(0.47)
Le3	0.025(0.00)	0.017(0.06)	0.072(0.12)	0.008(0.00)	0.027(0.15)	0.852(0.67)
Le4	0.009(0.00)	0.019(0.00)	0.008(0.00)	0.003(0.00)	0.008(0.00)	0.953(1.00)
Le5	0.012(0.01)	0.023(0.15)	0.038(0.12)	0.016(0.02)	0.047(0.25)	0.864(0.45)
Le6	0.013(0.02)	0.008(0.00)	0.032(0.08)	0.029(0.25)	0.169(0.34)	0.749(0.31)
Le7	0.021(0.12)	0.036(0.10)	0.054(0.12)	0.009(0.10)	0.241(0.24)	0.639(0.32)
Le8	0.006(0.00)	0.007(0.00)	0.351(0.00)	0.009(0.00)	0.147(1.00)	0.480(0.00)
Le9	0.033(0.00)	0.009(0.00)	0.008(0.00)	0.012(0.00)	0.014(0.00)	0.925(1.00)
Le10	0.009(0.00)	0.005(0.00)	0.007(0.00)	0.010(0.00)	0.014(0.00)	0.954(1.00)
Le11	0.010(0.00)	0.035(0.00)	0.010(0.00)	0.014(0.00)	0.026(0.00)	0.905(1.00)

^a The genetic clusters inferred using the STRUCTURE program
^b The average probability (q, in the parentheses) of assignment to the "correct" cluster ("correct" defined as q > 0.9 in the correct cluster) by using the BAPS program
^c Values of Q > 0.9 or q > 0.9 are in bold

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