The Genetic Diversity Of The Vietnamese H'Mong Dog Breed Based On Mitochondrial Hv1 Analysis

The H'mong docked tail is indigenous breed of dogs distributed in mountainous area of northern Vietnam. These dogs possess positive characteristics such as intelligence, agility, good health, good shape, human friendliness, ease of training and fully meet the criteria of a war dog. We had studied the diversity and origin of Vietnamese H 'mong dogs based on the molecular data of the mitochondria' HV1 region. A total of seventy individual dogs were sampled from Lao Cai, Ha Giang and Hai Phong provinces of northern Vietnam and were sequenced.Among the targeted dogs, 29 haplotypes were recorded and divided into four main groups: A, B, C and E. In our study, nine new haplotypes were recorded and all of them belong to haplotype group A. Group A was the most common with 24 haplotypes (82.76%) followed by C, E and B with 2 (6.9%), 2 (6.9%) and 1 haplotypes (3.4%) respectively. The genetic variations in the H'mong dogs were high with nucleotide diversity (Pi = 0.03179), haplotype diversity (Hd = 0.95648) and average number of nucleotide differences (Kt = 5.18384) and the p-genetic distances range was from 0.2 to 2.9%. This study has provided a valuable platform for breeding and conservation and management of the species in Vietnam.