By Carol Beuchat PhD There's a nice little paper just out about the Bullmastiff that provides a useful discussion of how both pedigree information and DNA analysis can be used to assess the genetic status of a dog breed. They worked on the population of Bullmastiffs in Australia, which descended from dogs imported from the UK. Although the breed was recognized by the British Kennel Club in the 1920's, the pedigree data for the animals in the Australian registry only go back to 1980, so d [...]
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