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Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication.


ABSTRACT: Advances in genome technology have facilitated a new understanding of the historical and genetic processes crucial to rapid phenotypic evolution under domestication. To understand the process of dog diversification better, we conducted an extensive genome-wide survey of more than 48,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in dogs and their wild progenitor, the grey wolf. Here we show that dog breeds share a higher proportion of multi-locus haplotypes unique to grey wolves from the Middle East, indicating that they are a dominant source of genetic diversity for dogs rather than wolves from east Asia, as suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Furthermore, we find a surprising correspondence between genetic and phenotypic/functional breed groupings but there are exceptions that suggest phenotypic diversification depended in part on the repeated crossing of individuals with novel phenotypes. Our results show that Middle Eastern wolves were a critical source of genome diversity, although interbreeding with local wolf populations clearly occurred elsewhere in the early history of specific lineages. More recently, the evolution of modern dog breeds seems to have been an iterative process that drew on a limited genetic toolkit to create remarkable phenotypic diversity.

SUBMITTER: Vonholdt BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3494089 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication.

Vonholdt Bridgett M BM   Pollinger John P JP   Lohmueller Kirk E KE   Han Eunjung E   Parker Heidi G HG   Quignon Pascale P   Degenhardt Jeremiah D JD   Boyko Adam R AR   Earl Dent A DA   Auton Adam A   Reynolds Andy A   Bryc Kasia K   Brisbin Abra A   Knowles James C JC   Mosher Dana S DS   Spady Tyrone C TC   Elkahloun Abdel A   Geffen Eli E   Pilot Malgorzata M   Jedrzejewski Wlodzimierz W   Greco Claudia C   Randi Ettore E   Bannasch Danika D   Wilton Alan A   Shearman Jeremy J   Musiani Marco M   Cargill Michelle M   Jones Paul G PG   Qian Zuwei Z   Huang Wei W   Ding Zhao-Li ZL   Zhang Ya-Ping YP   Bustamante Carlos D CD   Ostrander Elaine A EA   Novembre John J   Wayne Robert K RK  

Nature 20100317 7290


Advances in genome technology have facilitated a new understanding of the historical and genetic processes crucial to rapid phenotypic evolution under domestication. To understand the process of dog diversification better, we conducted an extensive genome-wide survey of more than 48,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms in dogs and their wild progenitor, the grey wolf. Here we show that dog breeds share a higher proportion of multi-locus haplotypes unique to grey wolves from the Middle East, indic  ...[more]

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