History and Facts: Found primarily in Greece, the Greek Harehound evolved from
ancient sight and scent
hounds, and is thought to be a close relative to similar dogs found in the Balkans.
Purebred dogs were also categorized into one of the 11 groupings based upon haplotype sharing as defined in Wayne and VonHoldt (2012)[14](n = 55,353):
ancient and spitz (n = 2946), herding (n = 4579), mastiff - like (n = 5548), retriever (n = 18,347), scent
hounds (n = 3742),
sight hounds (n = 761), small terriers (n = 2534), spaniels (n = 4315), toy (n = 5542), working dogs 1 (poodles and Havanese; n = 1923), and working dogs 2 (n = 5116)(Additional file 1: Table S1 and Additional file 2: Table S2).