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Population structure and inbreeding from pedigree analysis of purebred dogs
Federico C F Calboli et al. Genetics. 2008 May.
Abstract
Dogs are of increasing interest as models for human diseases, and many canine population-association studies are beginning to emerge. The choice of breeds for such studies should be informed by a knowledge of factors such as inbreeding, genetic diversity, and population structure, which are likely to depend on breed-specific selective breeding patterns. To address the lack of such studies we have exploited one of the world's most extensive resources for canine population-genetics studies: the United Kingdom (UK) Kennel Club registration database. We chose 10 representative breeds and analyzed their pedigrees since electronic records were established around 1970, corresponding to about eight generations before present. We find extremely inbred dogs in each breed except the greyhound and estimate an inbreeding effective population size between 40 and 80 for all but 2 breeds. For all but 3 breeds, >90% of unique genetic variants are lost over six generations, indicating a dramatic effect of breeding patterns on genetic diversity. We introduce a novel index Psi for measuring population structure directly from the pedigree and use it to identify subpopulations in several breeds. As well as informing the design of canine population genetics studies, our results have implications for breeding practices to enhance canine welfare.
Figures
Figure 1.—
Inbreeding coefficients averaged over dogs with the same GN value, rounded to the nearest integer. The vertical bars represent ±1 standard error of the mean.
Figure 2.—
Pedigrees of two highly inbred boxer dogs (represented by diamonds), each with f = 0.5. Squares represent sires and circles represent dams.
Figure 3.—
Dogs in the final two generations for (top) springer spaniel, (center) chow chow, and (bottom) golden retriever are plotted according to (left) the first two principal components based on their ancestors in the founding generation and (right) multidimensional scaling based on pairwise kinship coefficients. The red and blue circles indicate the two clusters identified using two-means clustering based on founder ancestry.
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