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The frequency of colors in the Icelandic horses.

An observation has recently been made on the frequency of the main color genes in the icelandic horse, Iceland.  Dr. Þorvaldur Árnason og Dr. Ágúst Sigurðsson calculated it from all horses that are registered in the Icelandic Horse Database (Fengur).

64.089 of 100.077 horses in Fengur were registered by color.

These are the main results: (A computing procedure for estimating genotype probabilities at eight individual colour loci in the Icelandic toelter horse. 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production. Warsaw Poland, 24-27 August 1998)

The frequency of the main golor genes:
 
 

Color
Number of horses
Percentage (%)
Chestnut 20342  31,74
Black 19259  30,05
Bay 10450  16,31
Albino (cremello/perlino) 64 0,1
Palomino 1892  2,95
Buckskin 751  1,17
Yellow dun and bay dun 3410  5,32
Blue dun 1942  3,03
Silver dapple 1113  1,74
Grey 4866  7,59
Tovero 5388  8,41
Roan 250  0,39

The frequency of the main color genes:

E  37,8%   e    62,2%
A  19,5%   a    80,5%
C  96,6%   Ccr  3,4%
D  4,5%    d    95,5%
G  3,9%    g    96,1%
Z  1,4%    z    98,6%
To 4,3%    to   95,7%
R  0,2%    r    99,8%


Palomino AND pinto... just imagine how rare this color is.

Silver dapple AND pinto AND blue dun... just imagine how rare this color is.
Bifröst from Sólheimum.

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