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Laghouaouta H, Fraile LJ, Estany J, Pena RN. Candidate markers for enhanced host response to PRRS have scarce adverse effects on pigs' growth and production. Porcine Health Manag 2024; 10:29. [PMID: 39169441 PMCID: PMC11337565 DOI: 10.1186/s40813-024-00379-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is one of the most challenging viral diseases that cause substantial economic losses in the pig industry worldwide. The clinical signs of PRRS depend on, among others, the immunomodulatory properties of the PRRS virus strain, farm health status, herd immunity, and host genetics. The high virulence and mutation rate of PRRS virus limit the efficacy of vaccination programs. In recent years, several candidate genetic markers associated with PRRS resilience have been identified, and selective breeding was suggested as an additional approach to control PRRS under field conditions. Even so, it is essential to investigate the effects of these genetic markers on pigs' productivity. Our study aimed to assess the association between seven previously reported candidate genetic markers for host response to PRRS (rs80800372 in GBP1, rs340943904 in GBP5, rs322187731 in GBP6, rs1107556229 in CD163, rs338508371 in SGK1, rs80928141 in TAP1, and a 275-bp insertion in the promoter of MX1) and production traits in pigs under non-challenging conditions. RESULTS About 600 high-health Duroc pigs were genotyped for the selected genetic markers and their effects on production traits (live body weight, carcass weight, backfat thickness, intramuscular fat content and composition) were assessed using a linear model. The genetic markers GBP5_rs340943904, GBP6_rs322187731, CD163_rs1107556229, and the 275-bp insertion at the promoter of MX1 showed no relevant associations with growth and carcass traits at slaughter. Regarding GBP1_rs80800372 (WUR1000125), the favourable G allele for PRRS resilience displayed significant additive effects on backfat thickness (+ 1.18 ± 0.42 mm; p = 0.005) and lean content (-1.72 ± 0.56%; p ≤ 0.01) at slaughter. In addition, the genetic markers SGK1_rs338508371 and TAP1_rs8092814 were associated with the palmitoleic content in gluteus medius, without affecting the total of the monounsaturated fatty acids. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that genetic markers for PRRS resilience have no relevant effects on growth and carcass traits in pigs reared under non-challenging conditions, except for GBP1_rs80800372 where the favourable allele for PRRS response has a negative impact on lean content. Therefore, since the effects of GBP1_rs80800372 were attributed to the causal variant GBP5_rs340943904, it seems beneficial to select pigs for the genetic marker at GBP5 instead of GBP1. Overall, pigs might be selected for enhanced PRRS resilience without compromising their overall productivity.
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- Houda Laghouaouta
- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida-Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
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You X, Li G, Yang Y. Breeding for disease resistance is an effective way to solve PRRSV. Microb Pathog 2023; 182:106251. [PMID: 37453481 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2023.106251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 07/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) is one of the major diseases restricting the development of large-scale pig breeding industry, which has brought huge economic losses to pig industry. Although a lot of work has been done in vaccine development, biosafety and pig health, PRRSV is characterized by easy mutation and recombination of genome, immunosuppression, enhanced antibody dependence, persistent infection, etc., making the prevention, control and elimination of PRRSV very difficult. With the deepening of PRRSV research, it is gradually realized that screening and identifying PRRSV susceptibility/resistance genes and implementing PRRSV disease resistance breeding are long-term and effective strategies for fundamental prevention and control, which has important practical significance for the prevention and control of pig herds.
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- Xiangbin You
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang, 471023, China.
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang, 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang, 471023, China
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Chase-Topping M, Plastow G, Dekkers J, Li Y, Fang Y, Gerdts V, Van Kessel J, Harding J, Opriessnig T, Doeschl-Wilson A. The WUR0000125 PRRS resilience SNP had no apparent effect on pigs' infectivity and susceptibility in a novel transmission trial. Genet Sel Evol 2023; 55:51. [PMID: 37488481 PMCID: PMC10364427 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-023-00824-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) remains one of the most important infectious diseases for the pig industry. A novel small-scale transmission experiment was designed to assess whether the WUR0000125 (WUR for Wageningen University and Research) PRRS resilience single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) confers lower susceptibility and infectivity to pigs under natural porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV-2) transmission. METHODS Commercial full- and half-sib piglets (n = 164) were assigned as either Inoculation, Shedder, or Contact pigs. Pigs were grouped according to their relatedness structure and WUR genotype, with R- and R+ referring to pigs with zero and one copy of the dominant WUR resilience allele, respectively. Barcoding of the PRRSV-2 strain (SD09-200) was applied to track pig genotype-specific transmission. Blood and nasal swab samples were collected and concentrations of PRRSV-2 were determined by quantitative (q)-PCR and cell culture and expressed in units of median tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50). The Log10TCID50 at each sampling event, derived infection status, and area under the curve (AUC) were response variables in linear and generalized linear mixed models to infer WUR genotype differences in Contact pig susceptibility and Shedder pig infectivity. RESULTS All Shedder and Contact pigs, except one, became infected through natural transmission. There was no significant (p > 0.05) effect of Contact pig genotype on any virus measures that would indicate WUR genotype differences in susceptibility. Contact pigs tended to have higher serum AUC (p = 0.017) and log10TCID50 (p = 0.034) when infected by an R+ shedder, potentially due to more infectious R+ shedders at the early stages of the transmission trial. However, no significant Shedder genotype effect was found in serum (p = 0.274) or nasal secretion (p = 0.951) that would indicate genotype differences in infectivity. CONCLUSIONS The novel design demonstrated that it is possible to estimate genotype effects on Shedder pig infectivity and Contact pig susceptibility that are not confounded by family effects. The study, however, provided no supportive evidence that genetic selection on WUR genotype would affect PRRSV-2 transmission. The results of this study need to be independently validated in a larger trial using different PRRSV strains before dismissing the effects of the WUR marker or the previously detected GBP5 gene on PRRSV transmission.
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- Margo Chase-Topping
- The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Edinburgh, UK.
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
- Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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- Vaccines and Diagnostics Department, Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, UK
- Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Suárez-Mesa R, Ros-Freixedes R, Laghouaouta H, Pena RN, Hernández-Ortiz B, Rondón-Barragán I, Estany J. Identification of breed-specific genomic variants in Colombian Creole pig breeds by whole-genome sequencing. Trop Anim Health Prod 2023; 55:154. [PMID: 37041265 PMCID: PMC10089996 DOI: 10.1007/s11250-023-03557-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 04/13/2023]
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Dissecting genetic variation of local breeds is important for the success of conservation. In this research, we investigated the genomic variation of Colombian Creole (CR) pigs, with a focus on the breed-specific variants in the exonic region of 34 genes with reported effects on adaptive and economic traits. Seven individuals of each of the three CR breeds (CM, Casco de Mula; SP, San Pedreño; and ZU, Zungo) were whole-genome sequenced along with 7 Iberian (IB) pigs and 7 pigs of each of the four most used cosmopolitan (CP) breeds (Duroc, Landrace × Large White, and Pietrain). Molecular variability in CR (6,451,218 variants; from 3,919,242, in SP, to 4,648,069, in CM) was comparable to that in CP, but higher than in IB. For the investigated genes, SP pigs displayed less exonic variants (178) than ZU (254), CM (263), IB (200), and the individual CP genetic types (201 to 335). Sequence variation in these genes confirmed the resemblance of CR to IB and indicates that CR pigs, particularly ZU and CM, are not exempt from selective introgression of other breeds. A total of 50 exonic variants were identified as being potentially specific to CR, including a high-impact deletion in the intron between exons 15 and 16 of the leptin receptor gene, which was only found in CM and ZU. The identification of breed-specific variants in genes related to adaptive and economical traits can bolster the understanding of the role of gene-environment interactions on local adaptation and points the way for effective breeding and conservation of CR pigs.
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- Rafael Suárez-Mesa
- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, 191 Rovira Roure, 25198, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
- Research Group in Immunobiology and Pathogenesis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, University of Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta, Ibagué, Colombia.
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, 191 Rovira Roure, 25198, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, 191 Rovira Roure, 25198, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, 191 Rovira Roure, 25198, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
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- Research and Innovation Group in Animal Health and Welfare Germplasm Animal Bank, Agrosavia, Bogotá, 250047, Colombia
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- Research Group in Immunobiology and Pathogenesis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, University of Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta, Ibagué, Colombia
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Lleida Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, 191 Rovira Roure, 25198, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
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You X, Li G, Lei Y, Xu Z, Zhang P, Yang Y. Role of genetic factors in different swine breeds exhibiting varying levels of resistance/susceptibility to PRRSV. Virus Res 2023; 326:199057. [PMID: 36731630 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), caused by the PRRS virus (PRRSV), is an economically significant contagious disease. Traditional approaches based on vaccines or medicines were challenging to control PRRSV due to the diversity of viruses. Different breeds of pigs infected with PRRSV have been reported to have different immune responses. However, due to the complexity of interaction mechanism between host and PRRSV, the genetic mechanism leading to PRRSV susceptibility/resistance in various pig breeds is still unclear. Herein, the role of host genetic components in PRRSV susceptibility is systematically described, and the molecular mechanisms by which host genetic factors such as SNPs, cytokines, receptor molecules, intestinal flora, and non-coding RNAs regulate PRRSV susceptibility/resistance. Therefore, improving the resistance to disease of individual animals through disease-resistance breeding technology is of profound significance for uplifting the sustainable and healthy development of the pig industry.
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- Xiangbin You
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China; Luoyang Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Luoyang 471023, China.
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Cheng J, Fernando R, Cheng H, Kachman SD, Lim K, Harding JCS, Dyck MK, Fortin F, Plastow GS, Canada P, Dekkers JCM. Genome-wide association study of disease resilience traits from a natural polymicrobial disease challenge model in pigs identifies the importance of the major histocompatibility complex region. G3 GENES|GENOMES|GENETICS 2022; 12:6486424. [PMID: 35100362 PMCID: PMC9210302 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Infectious diseases cause tremendous financial losses in the pork industry, emphasizing the importance of disease resilience, which is the ability of an animal to maintain performance under disease. Previously, a natural polymicrobial disease challenge model was established, in which pigs were challenged in the late nursery phase by multiple pathogens to maximize expression of genetic differences in disease resilience. Genetic analysis found that performance traits in this model, including growth rate, feed and water intake, and carcass traits, as well as clinical disease phenotypes, were heritable and could be selected for to increase disease resilience of pigs. The objectives of the current study were to identify genomic regions that are associated with disease resilience in this model, using genome-wide association studies and fine-mapping methods, and to use gene set enrichment analyses to determine whether genomic regions associated with disease resilience are enriched for previously published quantitative trait loci, functional pathways, and differentially expressed genes subject to physiological states. Multiple quantitative trait loci were detected for all recorded performance and clinical disease traits. The major histocompatibility complex region was found to explain substantial genetic variance for multiple traits, including for growth rate in the late nursery (12.8%) and finisher (2.7%), for several clinical disease traits (up to 2.7%), and for several feeding and drinking traits (up to 4%). Further fine mapping identified 4 quantitative trait loci in the major histocompatibility complex region for growth rate in the late nursery that spanned the subregions for class I, II, and III, with 1 single-nucleotide polymorphism in the major histocompatibility complex class I subregion capturing the largest effects, explaining 0.8–27.1% of genetic variance for growth rate and for multiple clinical disease traits. This single-nucleotide polymorphism was located in the enhancer of TRIM39 gene, which is involved in innate immune response. The major histocompatibility complex region was pleiotropic for growth rate in the late nursery and finisher, and for treatment and mortality rates. Growth rate in the late nursery showed strong negative genetic correlations in the major histocompatibility complex region with treatment or mortality rates (−0.62 to −0.85) and a strong positive genetic correlation with growth rate in the finisher (0.79). Gene set enrichment analyses found genomic regions associated with resilience phenotypes to be enriched for previously identified disease susceptibility and immune capacity quantitative trait loci, for genes that were differentially expressed following bacterial or virus infection and immune response, and for gene ontology terms related to immune and inflammatory response. In conclusion, the major histocompatibility complex and other quantitative trait loci that harbor immune-related genes were identified to be associated with disease resilience traits in a large-scale natural polymicrobial disease challenge. The major histocompatibility complex region was pleiotropic for growth rate under challenge and for clinical disease traits. Four quantitative trait loci were identified across the class I, II, and III subregions of the major histocompatibility complex for nursery growth rate under challenge, with 1 single-nucleotide polymorphism in the major histocompatibility complex class I subregion capturing the largest effects. The major histocompatibility complex and other quantitative trait loci identified play an important role in host response to infectious diseases and can be incorporated in selection to improve disease resilience, in particular the identified single-nucleotide polymorphism in the major histocompatibility complex class I subregion.
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- Jian Cheng
- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B4, Canada
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Centre de Développement du Porc du Québec Inc., Québec City, QC G1V 4M6, Canada
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
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- PigGen Canada Research Consortium, Guelph, ON N1H4G8, Canada
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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Kim S, Cho E, Kim Y, Lim Y, Jeong S, Song M, Lee K, Kim J. Novel insight into linkage disequilibrium and additive effect of GBP1 and GBP5 SNP haplotypes associated with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus susceptibility in Korean native pigs. Anim Genet 2021; 52:897-898. [PMID: 34482559 PMCID: PMC9292250 DOI: 10.1111/age.13134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Sangwook Kim
- Department of Animal Science and TechnologyChung‐Ang UniversityAnseongGyeonggi‐do17546Korea
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- Swine Science DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDACheonan31000Korea
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- Swine Science DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDACheonan31000Korea
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- Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDAWanju55365Korea
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- Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDAWanju55365Korea
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- Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDAWanju55365Korea
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- Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics DivisionNational Institute of Animal ScienceRDAWanju55365Korea
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- Department of Animal Science and TechnologyChung‐Ang UniversityAnseongGyeonggi‐do17546Korea
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Dong Q, Dunkelberger J, Lim KS, Lunney JK, Tuggle CK, Rowland RRR, Dekkers JCM. Associations of natural variation in the CD163 and other candidate genes on host response of nursery pigs to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection. J Anim Sci 2021; 99:6376573. [PMID: 34570877 PMCID: PMC8557627 DOI: 10.1093/jas/skab274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Pigs with complete resistance to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus (PRRSV) have been produced by genetically knocking out the CD163 gene that encodes a receptor of the PRRSV for entry into macrophages. The objectives of this study were to evaluate associations of naturally occurring single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CD163 gene and in three other candidate genes (CD169, RGS16, and TRAF1) with host response to PRRSV-only infection and to PRRS vaccination and PRRSV/porcine circovirus 2b (PCV2b) coinfection. SNPs in the CD163 gene were not included on SNP genotyping panels that were used for previous genome-wide association analyses of these data. An additional objective was to identify the potential genetic interaction of variants at these four candidate genes with a mutation in the GBP5 gene that was previously identified to be associated with host response to PRRSV infection. Finally, the association of SNPs with expression level of the nearby gene was tested. Several SNPs in the CD163, CD169, and RGS16 genes were significantly associated with host response under PRRSV-only and/or PRRSV/PCV2b coinfection. The effects of all SNPs that were significant in the PRRSV-only infection trials depend on genetic background. The effects of some SNPs in the CD163, CD169, and RGS16 genes depend on genotype at the putative causative mutation in the GBP5 gene, which indicates a potential biological interaction of these genes with GBP5. In addition, genome-wide association results for the PRRSV-only infection trials revealed that SNPs located in the CDK5RAP2 or MEGF9 genes, near the TRAF1 gene, had suggestive effects on PRRS viral load, which indicates that these SNPs might contribute to PRRSV neuropathogenesis. In conclusion, natural genetic variants in the CD163, CD169, and RGS16 genes are associated with resistance to PRRSV and/or PCV2b infection and appear to interact with the resistance quantitative trait locus in the GBP5 gene. The identified SNPs can be used to select for increased natural resistance to PRRSV and/or PRRSV-PCV2b coinfection.
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- Qian Dong
- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.,Topigs Norsvin USA, Burnsville, MN 55337, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61802, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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