Sho Sugiyama, Yong Hwa Chong, Masayuki Shito, Manami Kasuga, Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Chihiro Udagawa, Hiroshi Aoki, Makoto Bonkobara, Shuichi Tsuchida, Atsushi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Okuda, Atsushi Nagai, Toshinori Omi
LEGAL MEDICINE 15(6) 303-309 2013年11月 査読有り責任著者
To develop DNA markers for forensic analysis, we examined the hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) sequences of 447 pure-bred domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) that had been bred and raised in Japan. HVR1 is a 660-bp stretch of mitochondrial (mt) DNA. Among the 447 HVR1 sequences examined, we identified 58 haplotypes from 47 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and two insertion-deletion (InDel) polymorphisms. The haplotype diversity inferred from inter-breed analysis (N = 154, 88 breeds) was 0.929 +/- 0.011. Intra-breed analysis showed that the haplotype diversity of Golden Retrievers (N = 53), Labrador Retrievers (N = 67), Miniature Dachshunds (N = 61), Toy Poodles (N = 62), and Welsh Corgis (N = 50) was 0.624 +/- 0.052, 0.722 +/- 0.029, 0.922 +/- 0.010, 0.877 +/- 0.020, and 0.443 +/- 0.084, respectively. The results of this genotype analysis were used to construct a dataset consisting of dog mtDNA HVR1 sequences for use in forensic applications in Japan. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.