Up to now, research into the KAP genes (KRTAPs) has been primarily undertaken in humans and sheep. For example, at least 80 KRTAPs have been categorised into 25 families in humans [5,6]. In sheep,29 KRTAPs from 13 families have been identified [3,7,8]. Only 10 KAP genes have been described in goats, despite there being 17 caprine KRTAP sequences in the NCBI GenBank database. The published caprine KRTAP sequences include KRTAP1-1 [9], KRTAP1-4 [10], KRTAP6-2 [11], KRTAP7-1 [12],KRTAP8-1 [13], KRTAP8-2 [12], KRTAP9-2 [14], KRTAP11-1 [15], KRTAP13-1 [16], and KRTAP13-3 [9].