Goat; Microsatellite

Use of microsatellite markers to assign goats to their breeds

R. S. Aljumaah, Alobre, M. M., and Al-Atiyat, R. M., Use of microsatellite markers to assign goats to their breeds, vol. 14, pp. 9071-9080, 2015.

We investigated the potential of 17 microsatellite markers for assigning Saudi goat individuals to their breeds. Three local breeds, Bishi, Jabali, and Tohami were genotyped using these markers, and Somali goats were used as a reference breed. The majority of alleles were shared between the breeds, except for some that were specific to each breed. The Garza-Williamson index was lowest in the Bishi breed, indicating that a recent bottleneck event occurred.

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