COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATION OF PARENTAGE, IDENTITY, SEX, GENOTYPE AND/OR PHENOTYPE AND BREED DETERMINATION IN ANIMALS

摘要

The invention provides for a universal genetic evaluation system capable of simultaneously determining multiple genetic characteristics in domestic and wild animals. In particular, the invention provides for the use of polymorphisms, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertions, deletions, inversions, and/or other mutations within gene sequences, as determinants of genetic characteristics, such as parentage, identity, sex, genotype and/or phenotype. The universal genetic evaluation system is utilized to simultaneously determine multiple genetic characteristics in horses and wild horses, dogs and wild canids, cats, goats and wild goats, sheep and wild sheep, cattle, bison, deer (cervidae), donkeys, mules, swine and wild swine, camelids and wild camelids, other domestic and certain species of wild animals (deer, elk, red deer, antelope, caribou and reindeer, moose and other exotic deer and antelope species), birds (including pet birds and commercial bird species), reptiles, amphibians, fish and rodents, concurrently for each species.