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Brindle horses!
New discoveries in Brindle horses linking to Chimerism.
Chimerism-carrying two complete sets of DNA-has been reported in only about 30 people, and all of those discoveries have been accidental.
Brindle is a very rare horse color. Brindle, in all mammals, refers to vertical black (or its derivatives) stripes on any background color, although in horses it seems to be limited to colors with black points. Brindling tends not to affect the points, and these remain solid black. Brindling is a modification of a background color. It is usually seen on a brown (countershaded) background, which results in a bay brindle, but it also can be seen on backgrounds of other colors. Brindle seems to require sooty black countershading for its expression and reorganizes sootiness into vertical stripes instead of a more uniform sprinkling of hairs. Brindle has been seen as a rare variant in a variety of countries and horse breeds, but is so rare that generalities about its breed occurrence or genetic control are impossible to state. It is dominant in both dogs and cattle, which are other mammals in which brindling occurs. Results from the mating of brindle horses point to a similar conclusion in horses.
The relationship of brindle to other striped patterns, usually white, is uncertain. A link between black striping and white striping is not present in other species. However, Sharon Batteatte, who has long had an interest in breeding brindle horses can sometimes also produce white striping (or uneven roan) patterns. This intriguing result suggests that brindle in horses may be more related to a general striping phenomenon than it is in other species.
Dunbars Gold (pictured above), a stallion with a rare coat pattern had an even rarer condition: He was chimeric, meaning that he possessed two complete-and different-sets of DNA
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