Refinement and validation of a microsatellite based identification and parentage testing panel in horses

dc.contributor.advisorHarper, Cindy Kimen
dc.contributor.advisorSchulman, Martin L.en
dc.contributor.advisorGuthrie, Alan Johnen
dc.contributor.emailab.tsubaki@gmail.comen
dc.contributor.postgraduateBierman, Anandien
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T22:26:02Z
dc.date.available2011-06-21en
dc.date.available2013-09-06T22:26:02Z
dc.date.created2011-04-08en
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.date.submitted2011-06-15en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010.en
dc.description.abstractThe power of microsatellite markers lies in their ability to identify. Whether it is the identification of genes and associating them with known phenotypes or identifying and discerning individuals from one another, the role they play in the genetic field has been immense. Parentage testing of horses today is done via molecular means as opposed to serology. Microsatellite marker panels are decided upon by bodies such as the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) in order to uphold international genotyping standards. The current horse microsatellite marker panel is not fully characterized and many markers are amplified by primers originally designed for linkage studies and were never intended for multiplex PCR analysis. The aim of this study was to refine and validate the current marker panel used for horses through sequencing of the repeat elements and flanking regions as well as the design of new primers for the setup of a marker panel incorporating more microsatellites and better primers. Sequencing of microsatellite flanking regions revealed that much variation lies within the regions flanking a microsatellite repeat element. Sequencing of the repeat element showed that not all markers are simple repeats, as was previously thought. The primers used to amplify microsatellite markers for horses were re-designed in the course of this study, utilizing knowledge gained from flanking region variation and repeat element length. New primers and known allele sizes allowed for the implementation of a nomenclature system in horses based on repeat element length as opposed to alphabet letters. By incorporating more markers into the panel it was hoped that a greater discriminatory power would be achieved. Measures of genetic diversity such as Observed Heterozygosity and Polymorphism Information Content showed negligible differences between the two panels however genotyping data from the old ISAG panel of nine markers showed that the probability of excluding an individual in a parentage test was better when using more markers.en
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dc.description.departmentProduction Animal Studiesen
dc.identifier.citationBierman, A 2010, Refinement and validation of a microsatellite based identification and parentage testing panel in horses, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25557 >en
dc.identifier.otherE11/280/gmen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06152011-135037/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/25557
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectIsagen
dc.subjectMicrosatellite markersen
dc.subjectHorsesen
dc.subjectSociety for Animal Geneticsen
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleRefinement and validation of a microsatellite based identification and parentage testing panel in horsesen
dc.typeDissertationen

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