Blood typing invalidates alleged evidence of fertility of XO mare |
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Authors: | Bowling A T |
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Institution: | Serology Laboratory University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA. |
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Abstract: | A mare with XO gonadal dysgenesis was reported to have produced two foals. Blood samples from the mare, her two foals, their sire and the mare's sire were typed for blood-group and serum protein variants in conjunction with registry requirements. Both foals qualified as offspring of the reported parents. However, the blood-typed mare could be excluded as an offspring of her alleged sire. An alternative hypothesis to explain the blood-type and karyotype findings was that a fertile mare had been substituted for the XO mare, as surrogate mother and blood-type donor. A computer search of 120,000 blood-type records identified only one other horse with the same blood type as the dam of the foals. That horse was a mare of the same breed and owned by the person who had attempted to register foals from the XO mare. These blood-type findings invalidated the allegation of XO fertility and emphasize the need for parentage verification to support reports of unusual reproductive performance. |
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Keywords: | horse karyotype blood type XO gonadal dysgenesis |
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