Chinese Mongolian horses may retain early domestic male genetic lineages yet to be discovered

• Published in: Animal genetics Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 399 - 402
• Main Authors: Han, H., Wallner, B., Rigler, D., MacHugh, D. E., Manglai, D., Hill, E. W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2019
• Subjects: Animal populations; Animals; Animals, Domestic; China; Chromosomes; Domestic horse; Gene flow; haplotype; Haplotypes; Hoof; hooves; Horses; Horses - classification; Horses - genetics; landraces; Male; males; Mongolian (horse breed); Phylogeny; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Population studies; Populations; Y chromosome; Y chromosome variation; Y chromosomes; China; Y chromosome variation; haplotype; Domestic horse

Summary The Mongolian horse represents one of the most ancient extant horse populations. In this study we determined the male‐specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY) haplotype distribution in 60 Chinese Mongolian horses representing five distinct populations. Cosmopolitan male lineages were predom...