With this article published on BMC Genomics now also the horse has its spot within the ever growing group of animals with their genome resequenced using NGS technologies.
The authors has produced about 60Gb of DNA sequence from the genome of a Quarter Horse mare (mean coverage of 25X) and then compared the new assembled genome to the horse reference. In the paper they reported 19.1 Mb of new genomic sequence assembled and identified 3.1 million SNPs, 193 thousand INDELs, and 282 CNVs.
Besides resulting in a better horse genome reference, this paper, as authors stated, "increased the catalog of genetic variants for use in equine genomics by the addition of novel SNPs, INDELs, and CNVs. The genetic variants described here will be a useful resource for future studies of genetic variation regulating performance traits and diseases in equids."
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