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Ghavi Hossein-Zadeh N. An overview of recent technological developments in bovine genomics. Vet Anim Sci 2024; 25:100382. [PMID: 39166173 PMCID: PMC11334705 DOI: 10.1016/j.vas.2024.100382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2024] Open
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Cattle are regarded as highly valuable animals because of their milk, beef, dung, fur, and ability to draft. The scientific community has tried a number of strategies to improve the genetic makeup of bovine germplasm. To ensure higher returns for the dairy and beef industries, researchers face their greatest challenge in improving commercially important traits. One of the biggest developments in the last few decades in the creation of instruments for cattle genetic improvement is the discovery of the genome. Breeding livestock is being revolutionized by genomic selection made possible by the availability of medium- and high-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) arrays coupled with sophisticated statistical techniques. It is becoming easier to access high-dimensional genomic data in cattle. Continuously declining genotyping costs and an increase in services that use genomic data to increase return on investment have both made a significant contribution to this. The field of genomics has come a long way thanks to groundbreaking discoveries such as radiation-hybrid mapping, in situ hybridization, synteny analysis, somatic cell genetics, cytogenetic maps, molecular markers, association studies for quantitative trait loci, high-throughput SNP genotyping, whole-genome shotgun sequencing to whole-genome mapping, and genome editing. These advancements have had a significant positive impact on the field of cattle genomics. This manuscript aimed to review recent advances in genomic technologies for cattle breeding and future prospects in this field.
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- Navid Ghavi Hossein-Zadeh
- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, 41635-1314, Iran
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Batista S, Madar VS, Freda PJ, Bhandary P, Ghosh A, Matsumoto N, Chitre AS, Palmer AA, Moore JH. Interaction models matter: an efficient, flexible computational framework for model-specific investigation of epistasis. BioData Min 2024; 17:7. [PMID: 38419006 PMCID: PMC10900690 DOI: 10.1186/s13040-024-00358-0] [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: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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PURPOSE Epistasis, the interaction between two or more genes, is integral to the study of genetics and is present throughout nature. Yet, it is seldom fully explored as most approaches primarily focus on single-locus effects, partly because analyzing all pairwise and higher-order interactions requires significant computational resources. Furthermore, existing methods for epistasis detection only consider a Cartesian (multiplicative) model for interaction terms. This is likely limiting as epistatic interactions can evolve to produce varied relationships between genetic loci, some complex and not linearly separable. METHODS We present new algorithms for the interaction coefficients for standard regression models for epistasis that permit many varied models for the interaction terms for loci and efficient memory usage. The algorithms are given for two-way and three-way epistasis and may be generalized to higher order epistasis. Statistical tests for the interaction coefficients are also provided. We also present an efficient matrix based algorithm for permutation testing for two-way epistasis. We offer a proof and experimental evidence that methods that look for epistasis only at loci that have main effects may not be justified. Given the computational efficiency of the algorithm, we applied the method to a rat data set and mouse data set, with at least 10,000 loci and 1,000 samples each, using the standard Cartesian model and the XOR model to explore body mass index. RESULTS This study reveals that although many of the loci found to exhibit significant statistical epistasis overlap between models in rats, the pairs are mostly distinct. Further, the XOR model found greater evidence for statistical epistasis in many more pairs of loci in both data sets with almost all significant epistasis in mice identified using XOR. In the rat data set, loci involved in epistasis under the XOR model are enriched for biologically relevant pathways. CONCLUSION Our results in both species show that many biologically relevant epistatic relationships would have been undetected if only one interaction model was applied, providing evidence that varied interaction models should be implemented to explore epistatic interactions that occur in living systems.
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- Sandra Batista
- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA.
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., Mailcode: 0667, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0667, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., Mailcode: 0667, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0667, USA
- Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., Mailcode: 0667, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0667, USA
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- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 700 N San Vicente Blvd., Pacific Design Center, Guite G540, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, USA.
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Stamp J, DenAdel A, Weinreich D, Crawford L. Leveraging the genetic correlation between traits improves the detection of epistasis in genome-wide association studies. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2023; 13:jkad118. [PMID: 37243672 PMCID: PMC10484060 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Epistasis, commonly defined as the interaction between genetic loci, is known to play an important role in the phenotypic variation of complex traits. As a result, many statistical methods have been developed to identify genetic variants that are involved in epistasis, and nearly all of these approaches carry out this task by focusing on analyzing one trait at a time. Previous studies have shown that jointly modeling multiple phenotypes can often dramatically increase statistical power for association mapping. In this study, we present the "multivariate MArginal ePIstasis Test" (mvMAPIT)-a multioutcome generalization of a recently proposed epistatic detection method which seeks to detect marginal epistasis or the combined pairwise interaction effects between a given variant and all other variants. By searching for marginal epistatic effects, one can identify genetic variants that are involved in epistasis without the need to identify the exact partners with which the variants interact-thus, potentially alleviating much of the statistical and computational burden associated with conventional explicit search-based methods. Our proposed mvMAPIT builds upon this strategy by taking advantage of correlation structure between traits to improve the identification of variants involved in epistasis. We formulate mvMAPIT as a multivariate linear mixed model and develop a multitrait variance component estimation algorithm for efficient parameter inference and P-value computation. Together with reasonable model approximations, our proposed approach is scalable to moderately sized genome-wide association studies. With simulations, we illustrate the benefits of mvMAPIT over univariate (or single-trait) epistatic mapping strategies. We also apply mvMAPIT framework to protein sequence data from two broadly neutralizing anti-influenza antibodies and approximately 2,000 heterogeneous stock of mice from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. The mvMAPIT R package can be downloaded at https://github.com/lcrawlab/mvMAPIT.
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- Julian Stamp
- Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
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- Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
- Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Woodward AA, Urbanowicz RJ, Naj AC, Moore JH. Genetic heterogeneity: Challenges, impacts, and methods through an associative lens. Genet Epidemiol 2022; 46:555-571. [PMID: 35924480 PMCID: PMC9669229 DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Genetic heterogeneity describes the occurrence of the same or similar phenotypes through different genetic mechanisms in different individuals. Robustly characterizing and accounting for genetic heterogeneity is crucial to pursuing the goals of precision medicine, for discovering novel disease biomarkers, and for identifying targets for treatments. Failure to account for genetic heterogeneity may lead to missed associations and incorrect inferences. Thus, it is critical to review the impact of genetic heterogeneity on the design and analysis of population level genetic studies, aspects that are often overlooked in the literature. In this review, we first contextualize our approach to genetic heterogeneity by proposing a high-level categorization of heterogeneity into "feature," "outcome," and "associative" heterogeneity, drawing on perspectives from epidemiology and machine learning to illustrate distinctions between them. We highlight the unique nature of genetic heterogeneity as a heterogeneous pattern of association that warrants specific methodological considerations. We then focus on the challenges that preclude effective detection and characterization of genetic heterogeneity across a variety of epidemiological contexts. Finally, we discuss systems heterogeneity as an integrated approach to using genetic and other high-dimensional multi-omic data in complex disease research.
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- Alexa A. Woodward
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and InformaticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Computational BiomedicineCedars‐Sinai Medical CenterLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and InformaticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Computational BiomedicineCedars‐Sinai Medical CenterLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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MIDESP: Mutual Information-Based Detection of Epistatic SNP Pairs for Qualitative and Quantitative Phenotypes. BIOLOGY 2021; 10:biology10090921. [PMID: 34571798 PMCID: PMC8469369 DOI: 10.3390/biology10090921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Simple Summary The interactions between SNPs, which are known as epistasis, can strongly influence the phenotype. Their detection is still a challenge, which is made even more difficult through the existence of background associations that can hide correct epistatic interactions. To address the limitations of existing methods, we present in this study our novel method MIDESP for the detection of epistatic SNP pairs. It is the first mutual information-based method that can be applied to both qualitative and quantitative phenotypes and which explicitly accounts for background associations in the dataset. Abstract The interactions between SNPs result in a complex interplay with the phenotype, known as epistasis. The knowledge of epistasis is a crucial part of understanding genetic causes of complex traits. However, due to the enormous number of SNP pairs and their complex relationship to the phenotype, identification still remains a challenging problem. Many approaches for the detection of epistasis have been developed using mutual information (MI) as an association measure. However, these methods have mainly been restricted to case–control phenotypes and are therefore of limited applicability for quantitative traits. To overcome this limitation of MI-based methods, here, we present an MI-based novel algorithm, MIDESP, to detect epistasis between SNPs for qualitative as well as quantitative phenotypes. Moreover, by incorporating a dataset-dependent correction technique, we deal with the effect of background associations in a genotypic dataset to separate correct epistatic interaction signals from those of false positive interactions resulting from the effect of single SNP×phenotype associations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of MIDESP, we apply it on two real datasets with qualitative and quantitative phenotypes, respectively. Our results suggest that by eliminating the background associations, MIDESP can identify important genes, which play essential roles for bovine tuberculosis or the egg weight of chickens.
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Tyler AL, Emerson J, El Kassaby B, Wells AE, Philip VM, Carter GW. The Combined Analysis of Pleiotropy and Epistasis (CAPE). Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2212:55-67. [PMID: 33733350 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0947-7_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Epistasis, or gene-gene interaction, contributes substantially to trait variation in organisms ranging from yeast to humans, and modeling epistasis directly is critical to understanding the genotype-phenotype map. However, inference of genetic interactions is challenging compared to inference of individual allele effects due to low statistical power. Furthermore, genetic interactions can appear inconsistent across different quantitative traits, presenting a challenge for the interpretation of detected interactions. Here we present a method called the Combined Analysis of Pleiotropy and Epistasis (CAPE) that combines information across multiple quantitative traits to infer directed epistatic interactions. By combining information across multiple traits, CAPE not only increases power to detect genetic interactions but also interprets these interactions across traits to identify a single interaction that is consistent across all observed data. This method generates informative, interpretable interaction networks that explain how variants interact with each other to influence groups of related traits. This method could potentially be used to link genetic variants to gene expression, physiological endophenotypes, and higher-level disease traits.
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Sun S, Dong B, Zou Q. Revisiting genome-wide association studies from statistical modelling to machine learning. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5943789. [PMID: 33126243 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2020] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Over the last decade, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have discovered thousands of genetic variants underlying complex human diseases and agriculturally important traits. These findings have been utilized to dissect the biological basis of diseases, to develop new drugs, to advance precision medicine and to boost breeding. However, the potential of GWAS is still underexploited due to methodological limitations. Many challenges have emerged, including detecting epistasis and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with small effects and distinguishing causal variants from other SNPs associated through linkage disequilibrium. These issues have motivated advancements in GWAS analyses in two contrasting cultures-statistical modelling and machine learning. In this review, we systematically present the basic concepts and the benefits and limitations in both methods. We further discuss recent efforts to mitigate their weaknesses. Additionally, we summarize the state-of-the-art tools for detecting the missed signals, ultrarare mutations and gene-gene interactions and for prioritizing SNPs. Our work can offer both theoretical and practical guidelines for performing GWAS analyses and for developing further new robust methods to fully exploit the potential of GWAS.
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- Shanwen Sun
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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Genetic Interactions Affect Lung Function in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS 2020; 10:151-163. [PMID: 31694854 PMCID: PMC6945038 DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis (SSc), is an autoimmune disease characterized by progressive fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. The most common cause of death in people with SSc is lung disease, but the pathogenesis of lung disease in SSc is insufficiently understood to devise specific treatment strategies. Developing targeted treatments requires not only the identification of molecular processes involved in SSc-associated lung disease, but also understanding of how these processes interact to drive pathology. One potentially powerful approach is to identify alleles that interact genetically to influence lung outcomes in patients with SSc. Analysis of interactions, rather than individual allele effects, has the potential to delineate molecular interactions that are important in SSc-related lung pathology. However, detecting genetic interactions, or epistasis, in human cohorts is challenging. Large numbers of variants with low minor allele frequencies, paired with heterogeneous disease presentation, reduce power to detect epistasis. Here we present an analysis that increases power to detect epistasis in human genome-wide association studies (GWAS). We tested for genetic interactions influencing lung function and autoantibody status in a cohort of 416 SSc patients. Using Matrix Epistasis to filter SNPs followed by the Combined Analysis of Pleiotropy and Epistasis (CAPE), we identified a network of interacting alleles influencing lung function in patients with SSc. In particular, we identified a three-gene network comprising WNT5A, RBMS3, and MSI2, which in combination influenced multiple pulmonary pathology measures. The associations of these genes with lung outcomes in SSc are novel and high-confidence. Furthermore, gene coexpression analysis suggested that the interactions we identified are tissue-specific, thus differentiating SSc-related pathogenic processes in lung from those in skin.
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Yuan S, Li H, Xie J, Sun X. Quantitative Trait Module-Based Genetic Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E5912. [PMID: 31775305 PMCID: PMC6928939 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20235912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The pathological features of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) first appear in the medial temporal lobe and then in other brain structures with the development of the disease. In this work, we investigated the association between genetic loci and subcortical structure volumes of AD on 393 samples in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort. Brain subcortical structures were clustered into modules using Pearson's correlation coefficient of volumes across all samples. Module volumes were used as quantitative traits to identify not only the main effect loci but also the interactive effect loci for each module. Thirty-five subcortical structures were clustered into five modules, each corresponding to a particular brain structure/area, including the limbic system (module I), the corpus callosum (module II), thalamus-cerebellum-brainstem-pallidum (module III), the basal ganglia neostriatum (module IV), and the ventricular system (module V). Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment results indicate that the gene annotations of the five modules were distinct, with few overlaps between different modules. We identified several main effect loci and interactive effect loci for each module. All these loci are related to the function of module structures and basic biological processes such as material transport and signal transduction.
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; (S.Y.)
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A time-dependent genome-wide SNP-SNP interaction analysis of chicken body weight. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:771. [PMID: 31646968 PMCID: PMC6813082 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-6132-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background The important property of the quantitative traits of model organisms is time-dependent. However, the methodology for investigating the genetic interaction network over time is still lacking. Our study aims to provide insights into the mechanistic basis of epistatic interactions affecting the phenotypes of model organisms. Results We performed an exhaustive genome-wide search for significant SNP-SNP interactions associated with male birds’ body weight (BW) (n = 475) at multiple time points (day of hatch (BW0) and 1, 3, 5, and 7 weeks (BW1, BW3, BW5, and BW7)). Statistical analysis detected 67, four, and two significant SNP pairs associated with BW0, BW1, and BW3, respectively, with a significance threshold at 8.67 × 10− 12 (Bonferroni-adjusted: 1%). Meanwhile, no significant SNP pairs associated with BW5 and BW7 were found. The SNP-SNP interaction networks of BW0, BW1, and BW3 were built and annotated. Conclusions With strong annotated information and a strict significant threshold, SNP-SNP interactions underpinned the gene-gene interactions that might occur between chromosomes or within the same chromosome. Comparing and combing the networks, the results indicated that the genetic network for chicken body weight was dynamic and time-dependent.
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Ahsan A, Monir M, Meng X, Rahaman M, Chen H, Chen M. Identification of epistasis loci underlying rice flowering time by controlling population stratification and polygenic effect. DNA Res 2019; 26:119-130. [PMID: 30590457 PMCID: PMC6476725 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dsy043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Flowering time is an important agronomic trait, attributed by multiple genes, gene-gene interactions and environmental factors. Population stratification and polygenic effects might confound genetic effects of the causal loci underlying this complex trait. We proposed a two-step approach for detecting epistasis interactions underlying rice flowering time by accounting population structure and polygenic effects. Simulation studies showed that the approach used in this study performs better than classical and PC-linear approaches in terms of powers and false discovery rates in the case of population stratification and polygenic effects. Whole genome epistasis analyses identified 589 putative genetic interactions for flowering time. Eighteen of these interactions are located within 10 kilobases of regions of known protein-protein interactions. Thirty-seven SNPs near to twenty-five genes involve in rice or/and Arabidopsis (orthologue) flowering pathway. Bioinformatics analysis showed that 66.55% pairwise genes of the identified interactions (392 out of the 589 interactions) have similarity in various genomic features. Moreover, significant numbers of detected epistatic genes have high expression in different floral tissues. Our findings highlight the importance of epistasis analysis by controlling population stratification and polygenic effect and provided novel insights into the genetic architecture of rice flowering which could assist breeding programmes.
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- Asif Ahsan
- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University, Gopalganj, Bangladesh
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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van Bezouw RFHM, Keurentjes JJB, Harbinson J, Aarts MGM. Converging phenomics and genomics to study natural variation in plant photosynthetic efficiency. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2019; 97:112-133. [PMID: 30548574 PMCID: PMC6850172 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2018] [Revised: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 11/28/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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In recent years developments in plant phenomic approaches and facilities have gradually caught up with genomic approaches. An opportunity lies ahead to dissect complex, quantitative traits when both genotype and phenotype can be assessed at a high level of detail. This is especially true for the study of natural variation in photosynthetic efficiency, for which forward genetics studies have yielded only a little progress in our understanding of the genetic layout of the trait. High-throughput phenotyping, primarily from chlorophyll fluorescence imaging, should help to dissect the genetics of photosynthesis at the different levels of both plant physiology and development. Specific emphasis should be directed towards understanding the acclimation of the photosynthetic machinery in fluctuating environments, which may be crucial for the identification of genetic variation for relevant traits in food crops. Facilities should preferably be designed to accommodate phenotyping of photosynthesis-related traits in such environments. The use of forward genetics to study the genetic architecture of photosynthesis is likely to lead to the discovery of novel traits and/or genes that may be targeted in breeding or bio-engineering approaches to improve crop photosynthetic efficiency. In the near future, big data approaches will play a pivotal role in data processing and streamlining the phenotype-to-gene identification pipeline.
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- Roel F. H. M. van Bezouw
- Laboratory of GeneticsWageningen University and ResearchDroevendaalsesteeg 16708PBWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of GeneticsWageningen University and ResearchDroevendaalsesteeg 16708PBWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Horticulture and Product PhysiologyWageningen University and ResearchDroevendaalsesteeg 16708PBWageningenThe Netherlands
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- Laboratory of GeneticsWageningen University and ResearchDroevendaalsesteeg 16708PBWageningenThe Netherlands
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