Fazlollah Afraz
Animal Sciences Research Institute P.O. Box 31585-1483 Karaj, Iran
Ramin Hemmaty
Former Graduate Students of Animal Sciences, Karaj Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
Saeed Shamsa
Former Graduate Students of Animal Sciences, Karaj Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
ABSTRACT
Blood protein polymorphism of two Iranian indigenous horse populations, Kurd (KD) and Turkoman (TM) were electrophoretically examined. Gene frequencies were analyzed at Albumin (Alb), α-1 β glycoprotein (A1B), Pre-albumin (Pr), Alkaline phosphatase (Alp), Catalase (Cat), Esterase (Es), Cell-esterase (CEs), Hemoglobin (Hb), Transferrin (Tf) and Pre-transferrin (Ptf) loci. Among these 10 loci, 4 blood protein loci (Alp, CEs, Hb and Ptf) were monomorphic. In KD population, the frequency of AlbA (0.6057) was higher than AlbB (0.3943), while the frequencies of these two alleles in TM were almost the same. In TM population; the Pr3 and Pr1 alleles showed the highest (0.5469) and the lowest (0.0156) frequencies, respectively. In Es system frequency difference of I and F alleles was relatively high in both populations. Tf B2 locus was highly polymorphic. Five alleles were observed for this locus., Tf B2 showed higher frequency in both populations and Tf C and Tf E were in the lowest frequencies.
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Fazlollah Afraz, Ramin Hemmaty and Saeed Shamsa, 2006. Genetic Polymorphism of Blood Proteins in Iranian Kurd and Turkoman Horse Populations. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 9: 155-159.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2006.155.159
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2006.155.159
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2006.155.159
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2006.155.159
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