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Genetic variability of seven dog breeds based on microsatellite markers
Author(s) -
Schelling C.,
Gaillard C.,
Dolf G.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of animal breeding and genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.689
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1439-0388
pISSN - 0931-2668
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2005.00515.x
Subject(s) - microsatellite , linkage disequilibrium , biology , breed , genetics , population , evolutionary biology , cluster analysis , allele , statistics , haplotype , mathematics , demography , sociology , gene
Summary The present study, compared the genetic variability of seven dog breeds and a test sample from Switzerland by means of 26 microsatellite markers. Five loci were excluded from further analyses because one was monomorphic, one not in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium in all breeds and three in linkage disequilibrium with linked loci. The proportion of shared alleles at the individual level of the remaining 21 microsatellite markers combined with the neighbour‐joining method allowed for the clustering of the large majority of the individuals in accordance to their breed. The results were confirmed by analyses using a Bayesian approach for clustering and a Monte Carlo re‐sampling method for individual assignment or exclusion to a given population.