This study reports the identification of goat KRTAP15-1,and describes its effect on cashmere fibre traits. The goat KRTAP15-1 gene was clustered with other HS-KRTAPs and HGT-KRTAPs in a region on chromosome one and in an arrangement similar to that found in sheep (Li et al., 2018). The gene was expressed in secondary fibre follicles in the skin,and it exhibited sequence variation. This variation appeared to affect cashmere MFD.