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Genetic diversity and signatures of selection in four indigenous horse breeds of Iran.
Heredity - 1 Aug 2023
Mousavi Seyedeh Fatemeh, Razmkabir Mohammad, Rostamzadeh Jalal, Seyedabadi Hamid-Reza, Naboulsi Rakan, Petersen Jessica L, Lindgren Gabriella
Abstract excerpt
Indigenous Iranian horse breeds were evolutionarily affected by natural and artificial selection in distinct phylogeographic clades, which shaped their genomes in several unique ways. The aims of this study were to evaluate the genetic diversity and genomewide selection signatures in four indigenous Iranian horse breeds. We evaluated 169 horses from Caspian (n = 21), Turkmen (n = 29), Kurdish (n = 67), and...
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