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Characterizing dog breed differentiation with microsatellite markers.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 1996
Pihkanen S, Väinölä R, Varvio S
Abstract excerpt
Estimates of dog breed differentiation at microsatellite loci were obtained: (1) by contrasting data from German shepherds with a composite breed mixture sample; (2) by examining the Wahlund effect in new and published breed mixture data sets; and (3) from a comparison of published retriever and dachshund allele frequencies. In terms of F-statistics, the estimates ranged FBT = 0.22-0.30, and were therefore...
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