Recently published article - historic TB DNA analyzed

[aethervox]

Recently ran across this article:

Accurate Determination of Phenotypic Information from Historic Thoroughbred Horses by Single Base Extension http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015172

The authors are testing the accuracy of a new way of amplifying DNA for testing, and were able to get viable DNA from 13 historic horses, including Eclipse, Bend Or and Stockwell.

But it's the following article, cited as a reference, that I'd really like to see, because the text says that the 13 horses used in the paper above had mtDNA tested first for this study: Bower MA, Campana MG, Nisbet RER, Weller R, Whitten M, Edwards CJ, Stock F, Barrett E, O'Connell TC, Hill EW, Wilson AM, Howe CJ, Barker G, Binns M (Submitted) Truth in the bones: science resolves the identity of Thoroughbred racehorse sires.

[brogers]

This one is a broader study on mtDNA that looks at the origins of the horse as a whole

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi ... ne.0015311