VCF files from the study of low recombining genomic regions in pearl millet

We adopted a population genomic approach based on the analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms. The repository contains the VCF files generated for three datasets: a Senegalese (126 accessions, exome sequencing, 76,018 SNPs), an African (125 wild and cultivated accessions from Western, Central and Eastern Africa, whole genome sequencing, 25,969,513 SNPs) and a temporal dataset (377 accessions from 1976 and 2016, exome sequencing, 39,672 SNPs).

We studied seven large regions ranging from 5 to 88 Mb. These regions exhibit an excess of heterozygotes, a distinctive hallmark of overdominance. They displayed a tendency towards a higher diversity and ratio of non-synonymous and deleterious variants.