Poster prepared by Karen Marshall, Stanly Tebug, Jarmo Juga, Miika Tapio and Ayao Missohou for the Workshop on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa, Helsinki, Finland, 16 June 2014

1. www.mtt.fi/foodafrica
Senegal Dairy Genetics:
Using advanced DNA approaches
to determine breed composition
The Senegal Dairy Genetics project is using advanced DNA
approaches to determine the breed-type of dairy cattle in
the absence of farmer recorded pedigree.
In this way, Senegal dairy farmers and other stakeholders in
Senegal dairy are benefiting from the genomics revolution
This poster is part of the FoodAfrica Programme, financed as a research collaboration
between the MFA of Finland, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, IFPRI, ILRI, ICRAF,
Bioversity International, University of Helsinki and HAMK University of Applied Sciences
# Photo BovineSNP50 v2 BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA) www.illumina.com & DNA drawing http://www.farma.ku.dk
Karen Marshall, Stanly Tebug, Jarmo Juga, Miika Tapio and Ayao Missohou
The breed or cross-breed type of the dairy animals may not be accurately known by their owner
DNA samples are taken by
removing hair follicles
The animal’s breed type is
determined by examining
the DNA for breed specific
sequence changes called
single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNP)#
Analysis output for Senegal
Dairy Genetics animals with
each point representing an
animal and each colour a
different breed-type