The Genetics of Racing Performance in Arabian Horses

K Ropka-Molik; M Stefaniuk-Szmukier; A D Musiał; B D Velie

doi:10.1155/2019/9013239

The Genetics of Racing Performance in Arabian Horses

Int J Genomics. 2019 Sep 2:2019:9013239. doi: 10.1155/2019/9013239. eCollection 2019.

Authors

K Ropka-Molik¹, M Stefaniuk-Szmukier², A D Musiał³, B D Velie⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Molecular Biology, National Research Institute of Animal Production, Poland.
² Department of Horse Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, The University of Agriculture, Krakow, Poland.
³ Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
⁴ University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

Arabian horses are commonly believed to be one of the oldest and most influential horse breeds in the world. The high financial benefits obtained from races tend to search for genetic markers strongly correlated with the results achieved. To date, the modern approaches such as transcriptome, miRNAome, and metabolome analyses have been used to investigate the genetic background of racing performance as well as endurance capacity in Arabians. The analysis of polymorphisms at the genome level has also been applied to the detection of genetic variants associated with exercise phenotype in the Arabian breed. The presented review summarizes these findings, with a focus on the genetics underlying flat racing and endurance performance traits in different Arabian horse populations.

Publication types

Review