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.