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Research
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Haemoglobin polymorphism in Malabari goats -
K. A. Bindu and K. C. Raghavan
Vet World. 2010; 3(2): 74-75
Abstract
Malabari Goat populations of Tanur, Thalassery and Badagara were
studied for haemoglobin polymorphism. Two variants were observed
for haemoglobin, Hb A and Hb B with a frequency of 0.987 and
0.012, respectively, suggestive of three phenotypes, viz. Hb AA,
Hb AB and Hb BB, and indicating the predominance of Hb A in the
pooled population. Hb B variant was observed only in the
Thalassery population (gene frequency 0.038).
Key words: Polymorphism, Haemoglobin, Phenotype
