Laboratory of Animal Genetics

The laboratory was founded in  1930 by Yakob Lusis.

Prof. Yuri Stolposvsky,  Dr.Biol.Sci. (Head)

 

 

 

 

Selected publications

Bower MA, McGivney BA, Campana MG, Gu J, Andersson LS, Barrett E, Davis CR, Mikko S, Stock F, Voronkova V, Bradley DG, Fahey AG, Lindgren G, MacHugh DE, Sulimova G, Hill EW.The genetic origin and history of speed in the Thoroughbred racehorse. Nat Commun. 2012 Jan 24;3:643.

 

Malyarchuk B., Derenko M., Denisova G., Maksimov A., Wozniak M., Grzybowski T., Dambueva I., Zakharov I. Ancient links between Siberians and Native Americans revealed by subtyping the Y chromosome haplogroup Q1a. Journal of Human Genetics. 2011. V.56. P. 583–588.

Poptsova M.S., Larionov S.A., Ryadchenko E.V., Rybalko S.D., Zakharov I.A., Loskutov A. Hidden chromosome symmetry: in silico transformation reveals symmetry in 2DDNA walk trajectories of 671 chromosomes. PLoS One. 2009. Jul 28; 4(7):e6396

Gu J, Orr N, Park SD, Katz LM, Sulimova G, MacHugh DE, Hill EW. A genome scan for positive selection in thoroughbred horses. PLoS One. 2009 Jun 2;4(6):e5767.
Axenovich T.I., Zorkoltseva I.V., Akberdin I.R., Beketov S.V., Kashtanov S.N., Zakharov I.A., Borodin P.M. Inheritance of litter size at birth in farmed arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus, Canidae, Carnivora). Heredity. 2007. V.98(2). P. 99-105.

McGahern A, Bower MA, Edwards CJ, Brophy PO, Sulimova G, Zakharov I, Vizuete-Forster M, Levine M, Li S, MacHugh DE, Hill EW. Evidence for biogeographic patterning of mitochondrial DNA sequences in Eastern horse populations. Anim Genet. 2006 Oct;37(5):494-7
Malyarchuk B.A., Papuga M., Grzybowski T., Rogozin I.B., Wozniak M., Derenko M.V., Rychkov S.Y.,

Czarny J., Zakharov I.A., Miscicka-Sliwka D. Low variability of the POLG (CAG)n repeat in north Eurasian populations. Hum Biol. 2005.V.77(3). pp.355-65.