Acknowledgements
The VarGoats project sequencing effort has been funded mainly by France Génomique “Call for high impact projects” (ANR‐10‐INBS‐09‐08) and by the BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund Data and Resources Grant BBS/OS/GC/000012F awarded to the Roslin Institute for Reference genome and population sequencing of African goats. Detailed funding sources of the VarGoats project are described in Denoyelle et al, 2021). This study was supported by the Croatian Science Foundation (Project ANAGRAMS-IP-2018-01-8708 “Application of NGS in assessment of genomic variability in ruminants” and by the European Union (projects ECONOGENE QLK5–CT2001–02461). We are grateful to Dr E. Cuppen (Utrecht Medical Centre) for access to dideoxy sequencing facilities.