Table 4
The results of the pedigree analysis for the reference population of Mehraban sheep in year groups

Item/ year	1994-1999	2000-2005	2006-2011	Total years
Number of animals	7745	9340	9905	26990
Founder equivalent (fe)	7244	3116	2965	-
Founder genome equivalent (fg)	4211	2328	2118	-
Effective number of non-founders (Nenf)	10057	9205	7422	-
Effective population size (Ne)	363	5080	5740	11963
Average number of discrete generation equivalents (Ge)	0.3571	0.4545	0.5359	0.4188
Maximum number of discrete generation equivalents (MaxGe)	1.625	1.9375	2.77734	2.777734
Minimum number of discrete generation equivalents (MinGe)	0	0	0	0
Generation interval (L), years	2	2.18	2.27	2.15
Average coancestry (AC)	0.000118742	0.000214769	0.000238527	-
Changes in inbreeding (ΔF)	0.00137741	0.00009843	0.00008711	0.00004179