TY - JOUR AU - Rendo, Fernando AU - Iriondo, Mikel AU - Manzano, Carmen AU - Estonba, Andone PY - 2009 DA - 2009/12/16 TI - Identification of horse chestnut coat color genotype using SNaPshot® JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 255 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - The Cantabrian Coast horse breeds of the Iberian Peninsula have mainly black or bay colored coats, but alleles responsible for a chestnut coat color run in these breeds and occasionally, chestnut horses are born. Chestnut coat color is caused by two recessive alleles, e and ea, of the melanocortin-1 receptor gene, whereas the presence of the dominant, wild-type E allele produces black or bay coat horses. Because black or bay colored coats are considered as the purebred phenotype for most of the breeds from this region, it is important to have a fast and reliable method to detect alleles causing chestnut coat color in horses. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-255 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-2-255 ID - Rendo2009 ER -