UDK 639.1:599.731.11:631.523.5:577.21 POLYMORPHISM OF GENES ASSOCIATED WITH THE QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI IN WILD BOAR (Sus scrofa L., 1758) IN RUSSIA 1 All-Russia Research and Development Institute for Livestock Husbandry, RAAS, Dubrovitsy settlement 142132, Moscow province, Russia e-mail: n_zinovieva@mail.ru N.A. Zinovieva1, O.V. Kostyunina1, A.V. Ekonomov2, M.S. Shevnina2, I.A. Domskij2, E.A. Gladyr’1, G. Brem3 2 B.M. Zhitkov All-Russia Research and Development Institute of Hunting Economy and Fur Farming, RAAS, Kirov 610000, Russia e-mail: vniioz@mail.ru 3Veterinдrmedizinische Universitдt, Vienna A-1210, Austria, e-mail: gottfried.brem@agrobiogen.de Received January 19, 2013 S umma r y The genetic studies of wild boar (Sus scrofa L., 1758) (n = 89) inhabited in Russia using ten DNA markers RYR1, ESR, FSHB, NCOA1, BF, MUС4, IGF2, MC4R, POU1F1, ECRF18/FUT1 were carried out. <...> The assignment of individuals to different territorial clusters was performed based on similarity coefficient (Q) calculation for k = 2. <...> The average Q values in individuals inhabited on European part and in East Siberian was 0.984±0.005 and in Irkutsk region and Khabarovsk Kraj was 0.994±0.001. <...> The studied territorial groups significantly differed in NCOA1 allele frequencies: pA1 = 0.938 in wild boars assigned to the west cluster and pA1 = 0,000 to the east cluster. <...> Phenotypic differences of Sus scrofa L. allow distinguishing four races of pigs (Western, Eastern, Indian and Indonesian), which, in turn, include 16 (1), or, to some view, 27 subspecies (2, 3). <...> In Russia, according to A.A. Danilkin (4), there are five native subspecies of wild boar: Central European (S. s. <...> One of the most important factors that change genetic structure of subspecies is acclimatization. <...> For example, Ussuri subspecies known as the largest wild boar was introduced in European part of Russia, for example, in the hunting reserve “Zavidovo” (Tver oblast) (5, 6). <...> Introduction of wild pigs is plasticized in the present as well. <...> The achievements of molecular genetics open up new possibilities for studying animal groups and their genetic differentiation. <...> For wild boar, these methods <...>