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Comparison of thoroughbred and Arabian horses using RAPD markers
1Department of Veterinary Science, Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40546-0099.
Abstract:
We compared pools of DNA from 10 Thoroughbred horses and 10 Arabian horses for the presence of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers which might be useful in distinguishing between the breeds. Using 212 decamer oligonucleotides and our polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions, 173 of the primers produced scoreable bands. The number of bands ranged from 0 to 9 with an average of 3.6. In family studies using 11 arbitrarily selected primers, five of the 11 primers produced polymorphic bands which exhibited Mendelian inheritance as dominant markers. When comparing the pooled DNA from Thoroughbred and Arabian horses we found 10 primers which identified markers present in the pooled DNA from one breed but absent in the pool from the other breed. Testing individual horses revealed that only two markers were wholly absent for one group while being present among members of the other. Primer UBC-85 (5'-GTGCTCGTGC-3') detected a pair of markers absent in Thoroughbred horses but present among 11 of 31 Arabian horses. These markers were 1500 and 1700 base pairs (bp) long and designated UBC-85C and UBC-85D, respectively. Primer UBC-126 (5'-CTTTCGTGCT-3') detected a 1000 bp marker (designated UBC-126C) absent in 20 of 20 Thoroughbred horses but present in 31 of 31 Arabian horses.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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