Table 1

Summary statistics of diversity measures for 13 dog breedsDiversity measures for 4 Portuguese breeds and 13 other for which at least 10 individuals have been typed in previous studies [1,10,11,12].
Breed
 n
 Number of
 Haplotype diversity
 Mean n° of pairwise differences
 Nucleotide diversity


haplotypes
 haplogroups


Castro Laboreiro Dog
 58
 2
 1
 0.100 ± 0.052
 0.299 ± 0.317
 0.001 ± 0.001
Azores Cattle Dog
 23
 5
 3
 0.640 ± 0.065
 7.012 ± 3.418
 0.012 ± 0.007
Portuguese Sheepdog
 28
 5
 3
 0.484 ± 0.110
 4.780 ± 2.408
 0.008 ± 0.005
Serra da Estrela Mountain Dog
 34
 8
 4
 0.852 ± 0.030
 9.802 ± 4.601
 0.017 ± 0.009
German Shepherd [1,12]
 16
 3
 2
 0.575 ± 0.112
 4.500 ± 2.338
 0.008 ± 0.004
Retriever Labrador [1,10]
 22
 7
 2
 0.771 ± 0.060
 4.554 ± 2.327
 0.008 ± 0.004
Basenji [1]
 10
 3
 1
 0.644 ± 0.101
 2.156 ± 1.304
 0.004 ± 0.003
Akbasch[1]
 11
 5
 2
 0.618 ± 0.164
 3.455 ± 1.909
 0.006 ± 0.004
Canaan Dog[1]
 17
 6
 2
 0.831 ± 0.056
 7.801 ± 3.821
 0.013 ± 0.007
Saluki [1,11]
 16
 8
 2
 0.808 ± 0.093
 7.875 ± 3.867
 0.014 ± 0.007
Kangal[1]
 10
 5
 4
 0.822 ± 0.097
 9.622 ± 4.823
 0.017 ± 0.009
Ryukyu [11,12]
 14
 7
 3
 0.879 ± 0.058
 8.924 ± 4.377
 0.015 ± 0.008
Shiba [11]
 28
 8
 3
 0.791 ± 0.049
 6.717 ± 3.265
 0.012 ± 0.006

van Asch et al. BMC Genetics 2005 6:37   doi:10.1186/1471-2156-6-37