Gerona, España
Our goal was to investigate if selection for this phenotype has left a detectable genetic signature in goats. Ten mutations, plus 2 other ones detected in previous studies were genotyped in 560 goats representing 18 breeds from Italy, Spain, Canary Islands and North Africa. We detected significant evidences of directional selection at the MC1R and KIT genes, and of balancing/purifying selection at TYR and TYRP2 loci. However, population structure and phylogeographic analyses, considering both neutral and non-neutral SNP, demonstrated that breeds cluster according to their geographic origin (and not to their coat color).
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