Determination of Genetic Distance Between East Anatolian Red, Brown Swiss, Holstein and Simmental Breeds of Cattle Using Polymorphic Systems

Abstract

Dogru, U., Ozdemir, M., Soysal, M.I. and Topal, M. 2008. Determination of genetic distance between East Anatolian Red, Brown Swiss, Holstein and Simmental breeds of cattle using polymorphic systems. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 33: 145-148. Genetic distances were determined according to Nei, Caualli-Sforza and Reynolds methods between the BrownSwiss (1 731, Simmental(80), Holstein (28) and East Anatolian Red (51) cattle breeds using milk protein (01s~) and blood protein types (Hb and Tfl. The distribution ofphenotypic frequencies i n all the four breeds for all systems except as,-Cn was significant (P<O.Ol) using chi-square test. Phylogenetic trees based on the polymorphic systems of the populations obtained by three different methods of Nei, Caualli-Sforza and Reynolds were found to be similar. According to the phylogenetic trees Brown Swiss and Simmental cattle breeds fall in one group and dairy (Holstein) and Native (East Anatolian Red) breeds in different groups.

Prolactin-RsaI gene polymorphism in East Anatolian Red cattle in Turkey

“…The EAR native cattle breed is genetically the most distant compared with other breeds because it is a native breed in the vicinity of the Near East, which is known as the first centre of domestication (Ozdemir & Dogru, 2009;Dogru et al, 2012). The objectives of the present study were to determine PRL-RsaI polymorphism, and estimate the gene and genotype frequencies in native EAR cattle in Turkey.…”