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Dorji J, Vander Jagt CJ, Garner JB, Marett LC, Mason BA, Reich CM, Xiang R, Clark EL, Cocks BG, Chamberlain AJ, MacLeod IM, Daetwyler HD. Correction to: Expression of mitochondrial protein genes encoded by nuclear and mitochondrial genomes correlate with energy metabolism in dairy cattle. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:315. [PMID: 35443605 PMCID: PMC9022241 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08404-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jigme Dorji
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia. .,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Ellinbank Dairy Centre, Ellinbank, VIC, 3822, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Ellinbank Dairy Centre, Ellinbank, VIC, 3822, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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Allais-Bonnet A, Hintermann A, Deloche MC, Cornette R, Bardou P, Naval-Sanchez M, Pinton A, Haruda A, Grohs C, Zakany J, Bigi D, Medugorac I, Putelat O, Greyvenstein O, Hadfield T, Jemaa SB, Bunevski G, Menzi F, Hirter N, Paris JM, Hedges J, Palhiere I, Rupp R, Lenstra JA, Gidney L, Lesur J, Schafberg R, Stache M, Wandhammer MD, Arbogast RM, Guintard C, Blin A, Boukadiri A, Rivière J, Esquerré D, Donnadieu C, Danchin-Burge C, Reich CM, Riley DG, Marle-Koster EV, Cockett N, Hayes BJ, Drögemüller C, Kijas J, Pailhoux E, Tosser-Klopp G, Duboule D, Capitan A. Analysis of Polycerate Mutants Reveals the Evolutionary Co-option of HOXD1 for Horn Patterning in Bovidae. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 38:2260-2272. [PMID: 33528505 PMCID: PMC8136503 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
In the course of evolution, pecorans (i.e., higher ruminants) developed a remarkable diversity of osseous cranial appendages, collectively referred to as “headgear,” which likely share the same origin and genetic basis. However, the nature and function of the genetic determinants underlying their number and position remain elusive. Jacob and other rare populations of sheep and goats are characterized by polyceraty, the presence of more than two horns. Here, we characterize distinct POLYCERATE alleles in each species, both associated with defective HOXD1 function. We show that haploinsufficiency at this locus results in the splitting of horn bud primordia, likely following the abnormal extension of an initial morphogenetic field. These results highlight the key role played by this gene in headgear patterning and illustrate the evolutionary co-option of a gene involved in the early development of bilateria to properly fix the position and number of these distinctive organs of Bovidae.
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- Aurélie Allais-Bonnet
- ALLICE, Paris, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, INRAE, BREED, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, BREED, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- ALLICE, Paris, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, INRAE, BREED, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, BREED, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, France.,INRAE, Sigenae, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Population Genomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Archéologie Alsace, Sélestat, France.,UMR 7044, ARCHIMEDE, MISHA, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Laboratoire des Productions Animales et Fourragères, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie, Université de Carthage, Ariana, Tunisia
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- Livestock Department, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food Institute of Animal Biotechnology, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Manx Loaghtan Sheep Breeders' Group, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- GenPhySE, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Rent a Peasant, Tow Law, Bishop Auckland, Durham County, United Kingdom
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- Unité Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Unité d'Anatomie Comparée, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de l'Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation, Nantes Atlantique-ONIRIS, Nantes, France.,Groupe d'Études Remodelage Osseux et bioMatériaux (GEROM), Université d'Angers, Unité INSERM 922, LHEA/IRIS-IBS, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, UMS 2700 2AD, Paris, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,INRAE, Micalis Institute, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRAE, US, 1426, GeT-PlaGe, Genotoul, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), Centre for Animal Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- CSIRO Agriculture & Food, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, INRAE, BREED, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, BREED, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.,Swiss Cancer Research Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Collège de France, Paris, France
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- ALLICE, Paris, France.,Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Yuan Z, Sunduimijid B, Xiang R, Behrendt R, Knight MI, Mason BA, Reich CM, Prowse-Wilkins C, Vander Jagt CJ, Chamberlain AJ, MacLeod IM, Li F, Yue X, Daetwyler HD. Expression quantitative trait loci in sheep liver and muscle contribute to variations in meat traits. Genet Sel Evol 2021; 53:8. [PMID: 33461502 PMCID: PMC7812657 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-021-00602-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Variants that regulate transcription, such as expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL), have shown enrichment in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for mammalian complex traits. However, no study has reported eQTL in sheep, although it is an important agricultural species for which many GWAS of complex meat traits have been conducted. Using RNA sequence data produced from liver and muscle from 149 sheep and imputed whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), our aim was to dissect the genetic architecture of the transcriptome by associating sheep genotypes with three major molecular phenotypes including gene expression (geQTL), exon expression (eeQTL) and RNA splicing (sQTL). We also examined these three types of eQTL for their enrichment in GWAS of multi-meat traits and fatty acid profiles. Results Whereas a relatively small number of molecular phenotypes were significantly heritable (h2 > 0, P < 0.05), their mean heritability ranged from 0.67 to 0.73 for liver and from 0.71 to 0.77 for muscle. Association analysis between molecular phenotypes and SNPs within ± 1 Mb identified many significant cis-eQTL (false discovery rate, FDR < 0.01). The median distance between the eQTL and transcription start sites (TSS) ranged from 68 to 153 kb across the three eQTL types. The number of common variants between geQTL, eeQTL and sQTL within each tissue, and the number of common variants between liver and muscle within each eQTL type were all significantly (P < 0.05) larger than expected by chance. The identified eQTL were significantly (P < 0.05) enriched in GWAS hits associated with 56 carcass traits and fatty acid profiles. For example, several geQTL in muscle mapped to the FAM184B gene, hundreds of sQTL in liver and muscle mapped to the CAST gene, and hundreds of sQTL in liver mapped to the C6 gene. These three genes are associated with body composition or fatty acid profiles. Conclusions We detected a large number of significant eQTL and found that the overlap of variants between eQTL types and tissues was prevalent. Many eQTL were also QTL for meat traits. Our study fills a gap in the knowledge on the regulatory variants and their role in complex traits for the sheep model.
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- Zehu Yuan
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Grassland Agriculture Engineering Center, Ministry of Education; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730020, People's Republic of China.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Institutes of Agricultural Science and Technology Development (Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture & Agri-Product Safety), Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, 225000, People's Republic of China
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Hamilton Centre, Hamilton, VIC, 3300, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Hamilton Centre, Hamilton, VIC, 3300, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Grassland Agriculture Engineering Center, Ministry of Education; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730020, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems; Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs; Grassland Agriculture Engineering Center, Ministry of Education; College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730020, People's Republic of China.
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia. .,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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Dorji J, Vander Jagt CJ, Garner JB, Marett LC, Mason BA, Reich CM, Xiang R, Clark EL, Cocks BG, Chamberlain AJ, MacLeod IM, Daetwyler HD. Expression of mitochondrial protein genes encoded by nuclear and mitochondrial genomes correlate with energy metabolism in dairy cattle. BMC Genomics 2020; 21:720. [PMID: 33076826 PMCID: PMC7574280 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-07018-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Mutations in the mitochondrial genome have been implicated in mitochondrial disease, often characterized by impaired cellular energy metabolism. Cellular energy metabolism in mitochondria involves mitochondrial proteins (MP) from both the nuclear (NuMP) and mitochondrial (MtMP) genomes. The expression of MP genes in tissues may be tissue specific to meet varying specific energy demands across the tissues. Currently, the characteristics of MP gene expression in tissues of dairy cattle are not well understood. In this study, we profile the expression of MP genes in 29 adult and six foetal tissues in dairy cattle using RNA sequencing and gene expression analyses: particularly differential gene expression and co-expression network analyses. Results MP genes were differentially expressed (DE; over-expressed or under-expressed) across tissues in cattle. All 29 tissues showed DE NuMP genes in varying proportions of over-expression and under-expression. On the other hand, DE of MtMP genes was observed in < 50% of tissues and notably MtMP genes within a tissue was either all over-expressed or all under-expressed. A high proportion of NuMP (up to 60%) and MtMP (up to 100%) genes were over-expressed in tissues with expected high metabolic demand; heart, skeletal muscles and tongue, and under-expressed (up to 45% of NuMP, 77% of MtMP genes) in tissues with expected low metabolic rates; leukocytes, thymus, and lymph nodes. These tissues also invariably had the expression of all MtMP genes in the direction of dominant NuMP genes expression. The NuMP and MtMP genes were highly co-expressed across tissues and co-expression of genes in a cluster were non-random and functionally enriched for energy generation pathway. The differential gene expression and co-expression patterns were validated in independent cow and sheep datasets. Conclusions The results of this study support the concept that there are biological interaction of MP genes from the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes given their over-expression in tissues with high energy demand and co-expression in tissues. This highlights the importance of considering MP genes from both genomes in future studies related to mitochondrial functions and traits related to energy metabolism.
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- Jigme Dorji
- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia. .,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Ellinbank Dairy Centre, Ellinbank, VIC, 3822, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Ellinbank Dairy Centre, Ellinbank, VIC, 3822, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia
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- The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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Liu Z, Wang T, Pryce JE, MacLeod IM, Hayes BJ, Chamberlain AJ, Jagt CV, Reich CM, Mason BA, Rochfort S, Cocks BG. Fine-mapping sequence mutations with a major effect on oligosaccharide content in bovine milk. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2137. [PMID: 30765736 PMCID: PMC6376028 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-38488-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Human milk contains abundant oligosaccharides (OS) which are believed to have strong health benefits for neonates. OS are a minor component of bovine milk and little is known about how the production of OS is regulated in the bovine mammary gland. We have measured the abundance of 12 major OS in milk of 360 cows, which had high density SNP marker genotypes. Most of the OS were found to be highly heritable (h2 between 50 and 84%). A genome-wide association study allowed us to fine-map several QTL and identify candidate genes with major effects on five OS. Among them, a putative causal mutation close to the ABO gene on Chromosome 11 accounted for approximately 80% of genetic variance for two OS, N-acetylgalactosaminyllactose and lacto-N-neotetraose. This mutation lies very close to a variant associated with the expression levels of ABO. A third QTL mapped close to ST3GAL6 on Chromosome 1 explaining 33% of genetic variation of an abundant OS, 3′-sialyllactose. The presence of major gene effects suggests that targeted marker-assisted selection would lead to a significant increase in the level of these OS in milk. This is the first attempt to map candidate genes and causal mutations for bovine milk OS.
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- Zhiqian Liu
- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia.,Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Centre for Animal Science, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia. .,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia.
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- Agriculture Victoria Research, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083, Australia
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Xiang R, Hayes BJ, Vander Jagt CJ, MacLeod IM, Khansefid M, Bowman PJ, Yuan Z, Prowse-Wilkins CP, Reich CM, Mason BA, Garner JB, Marett LC, Chen Y, Bolormaa S, Daetwyler HD, Chamberlain AJ, Goddard ME. Genome variants associated with RNA splicing variations in bovine are extensively shared between tissues. BMC Genomics 2018; 19:521. [PMID: 29973141 PMCID: PMC6032541 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-018-4902-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Mammalian phenotypes are shaped by numerous genome variants, many of which may regulate gene transcription or RNA splicing. To identify variants with regulatory functions in cattle, an important economic and model species, we used sequence variants to map a type of expression quantitative trait loci (expression QTLs) that are associated with variations in the RNA splicing, i.e., sQTLs. To further the understanding of regulatory variants, sQTLs were compare with other two types of expression QTLs, 1) variants associated with variations in gene expression, i.e., geQTLs and 2) variants associated with variations in exon expression, i.e., eeQTLs, in different tissues. Results Using whole genome and RNA sequence data from four tissues of over 200 cattle, sQTLs identified using exon inclusion ratios were verified by matching their effects on adjacent intron excision ratios. sQTLs contained the highest percentage of variants that are within the intronic region of genes and contained the lowest percentage of variants that are within intergenic regions, compared to eeQTLs and geQTLs. Many geQTLs and sQTLs are also detected as eeQTLs. Many expression QTLs, including sQTLs, were significant in all four tissues and had a similar effect in each tissue. To verify such expression QTL sharing between tissues, variants surrounding (±1 Mb) the exon or gene were used to build local genomic relationship matrices (LGRM) and estimated genetic correlations between tissues. For many exons, the splicing and expression level was determined by the same cis additive genetic variance in different tissues. Thus, an effective but simple-to-implement meta-analysis combining information from three tissues is introduced to increase power to detect and validate sQTLs. sQTLs and eeQTLs together were more enriched for variants associated with cattle complex traits, compared to geQTLs. Several putative causal mutations were identified, including an sQTL at Chr6:87392580 within the 5th exon of kappa casein (CSN3) associated with milk production traits. Conclusions Using novel analytical approaches, we report the first identification of numerous bovine sQTLs which are extensively shared between multiple tissue types. The significant overlaps between bovine sQTLs and complex traits QTL highlight the contribution of regulatory mutations to phenotypic variations. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-018-4902-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Ruidong Xiang
- Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia. .,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Centre for Animal Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, 4067, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Dairy Production Science, Ellinbank, VIC, 3821, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Dairy Production Science, Ellinbank, VIC, 3821, Australia
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- Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Camden, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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- Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia.,Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia
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Chen L, Chamberlain AJ, Reich CM, Daetwyler HD, Hayes BJ. Erratum to: Detection and validation of structural variations in bovine whole-genome sequence data. Genet Sel Evol 2017; 49:31. [PMID: 28257629 PMCID: PMC5336645 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-017-0305-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Long Chen
- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia. .,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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Chen L, Chamberlain AJ, Reich CM, Daetwyler HD, Hayes BJ. Detection and validation of structural variations in bovine whole-genome sequence data. Genet Sel Evol 2017; 49:13. [PMID: 28122487 PMCID: PMC5267451 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-017-0286-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Several examples of structural variation (SV) affecting phenotypic traits have been reported in cattle. Currently the identification of SV from whole-genome sequence data (WGS) suffers from a high false positive rate. Our aim was to construct a high quality set of SV calls in cattle using WGS data. First, we tested two SV detection programs, Breakdancer and Pindel, and the overlap of these methods, on simulated sequence data to determine their precision and sensitivity. We then identified population SV from WGS of 252 Holstein and 64 Jersey bulls based on the overlapping calls from the two programs. In addition, we validated an overlapped SV set in 28 twice-sequenced Holstein individuals, and in another two validated sets (one for each breed) that were transmitted from sire to son. We also tested whether highly conserved gene sets across eukaryotes and recently expanded gene families in bovine were depleted and enriched, respectively, for SV. RESULTS In empirical WGS data, 17,518 SV covering 27.36 Mb were found in the Holstein population and 4285 SV covering 8.74 Mb in the Jersey population, of which 4.62 Mb of SV overlapped between Holsteins and Jerseys. A total of 11,534 candidate SV covering 5.64 Mb were validated in the 28 twice-sequenced individuals, while 3.49 and 0.67 Mb of SV were validated from Holstein and Jersey sire-son transmission, respectively. Only eight of 237 core eukaryotic genes had at least a 50-bp overlap with an SV from our validated sets, suggesting that conserved genes are depleted for SV (p < 0.05). In addition, we observed that recently expanded gene families were significantly more associated with SV than other genes. Long interspersed nuclear elements-1 were enriched for deletions when compared to the rest of the genome (p = 0.0035). CONCLUSIONS We reported SV from 252 Holstein and 64 Jersey individuals. A considerable proportion of Jersey population SV (53.5%) were also found in Holstein. In contrast, about 76.90% sire-son transmission validated SV were present in Jerseys and Holsteins. The enrichment of SV in expanding gene families suggests that SV can be a source of genetic variation for evolution.
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- Long Chen
- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia. .,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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- AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Biosciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, Bundoora, VIC, Australia.,School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia
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Garner JB, Douglas ML, Williams SRO, Wales WJ, Marett LC, Nguyen TTT, Reich CM, Hayes BJ. Corrigendum: Genomic Selection Improves Heat Tolerance in Dairy Cattle. Sci Rep 2017; 7:39896. [PMID: 28102230 PMCID: PMC5244622 DOI: 10.1038/srep39896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Garner JB, Douglas ML, Williams SRO, Wales WJ, Marett LC, Nguyen TTT, Reich CM, Hayes BJ. Genomic Selection Improves Heat Tolerance in Dairy Cattle. Sci Rep 2016; 6:34114. [PMID: 27682591 PMCID: PMC5040955 DOI: 10.1038/srep34114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Dairy products are a key source of valuable proteins and fats for many millions of people worldwide. Dairy cattle are highly susceptible to heat-stress induced decline in milk production, and as the frequency and duration of heat-stress events increases, the long term security of nutrition from dairy products is threatened. Identification of dairy cattle more tolerant of heat stress conditions would be an important progression towards breeding better adapted dairy herds to future climates. Breeding for heat tolerance could be accelerated with genomic selection, using genome wide DNA markers that predict tolerance to heat stress. Here we demonstrate the value of genomic predictions for heat tolerance in cohorts of Holstein cows predicted to be heat tolerant and heat susceptible using controlled-climate chambers simulating a moderate heatwave event. Not only was the heat challenge stimulated decline in milk production less in cows genomically predicted to be heat-tolerant, physiological indicators such as rectal and intra-vaginal temperatures had reduced increases over the 4 day heat challenge. This demonstrates that genomic selection for heat tolerance in dairy cattle is a step towards securing a valuable source of nutrition and improving animal welfare facing a future with predicted increases in heat stress events.
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- J B Garner
- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank, Victoria 3821, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank, Victoria 3821, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank, Victoria 3821, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank, Victoria 3821, Australia
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- Agriculture Victoria, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 1301 Hazeldean Road, Ellinbank, Victoria 3821, Australia
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- BioSciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- BioSciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- BioSciences Research, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, AgriBio, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia.,Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Centre for Animal Science, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
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Greyvenstein OFC, Reich CM, van Marle-Koster E, Riley DG, Hayes BJ. Polyceraty (multi-horns) in Damara sheep maps to ovine chromosome 2. Anim Genet 2016; 47:263-6. [PMID: 26767563 DOI: 10.1111/age.12411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Polyceraty (presence of multiple horns) is rare in modern day ungulates. Although not found in wild sheep, polyceraty does occur in a small number of domestic sheep breeds covering a wide geographical region. Damara are fat-tailed hair sheep, from the south-western region of Africa, which display polyceraty, with horn number ranging from zero to four. We conducted a genome-wide association study for horn number with 43 Damara genotyped with 606 006 SNP markers. The analysis revealed a region with multiple significant SNPs on ovine chromosome 2, in a location different from the mutation for polled in sheep on chromosome 10. The causal mutation for polyceraty was not identified; however, the region associated with polyceraty spans nine HOXD genes, which are critical in embryonic development of appendages. Mutations in HOXD genes are implicated in polydactly phenotypes in mice and humans. There was no evidence for epistatic interactions contributing to polyceraty. This is the first report on the genetic mechanisms underlying polyceraty in the under-studied Damara.
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- O F C Greyvenstein
- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- BioSciences Research Division, Department of Economic Developments, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Vic., 3083, Australia
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- Department of Animal and Wildlife Science, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, 0028, South Africa
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- Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- BioSciences Research Division, Department of Economic Developments, Jobs, Transport and Resources, 5 Ring Road, Bundoora, Vic., 3083, Australia.,La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic., 3083, Australia
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Kemper KE, Reich CM, Bowman PJ, Vander Jagt CJ, Chamberlain AJ, Mason BA, Hayes BJ, Goddard ME. Improved precision of QTL mapping using a nonlinear Bayesian method in a multi-breed population leads to greater accuracy of across-breed genomic predictions. Genet Sel Evol 2015; 47:29. [PMID: 25887988 PMCID: PMC4399226 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-014-0074-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Genomic selection is increasingly widely practised, particularly in dairy cattle. However, the accuracy of current predictions using GBLUP (genomic best linear unbiased prediction) decays rapidly across generations, and also as selection candidates become less related to the reference population. This is likely caused by the effects of causative mutations being dispersed across many SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that span large genomic intervals. In this paper, we hypothesise that the use of a nonlinear method (BayesR), combined with a multi-breed (Holstein/Jersey) reference population will map causative mutations with more precision than GBLUP and this, in turn, will increase the accuracy of genomic predictions for selection candidates that are less related to the reference animals. RESULTS BayesR improved the across-breed prediction accuracy for Australian Red dairy cattle for five milk yield and composition traits by an average of 7% over the GBLUP approach (Australian Red animals were not included in the reference population). Using the multi-breed reference population with BayesR improved accuracy of prediction in Australian Red cattle by 2 - 5% compared to using BayesR with a single breed reference population. Inclusion of 8478 Holstein and 3917 Jersey cows in the reference population improved accuracy of predictions for these breeds by 4 and 5%. However, predictions for Holstein and Jersey cattle were similar using within-breed and multi-breed reference populations. We propose that the improvement in across-breed prediction achieved by BayesR with the multi-breed reference population is due to more precise mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL), which was demonstrated for several regions. New candidate genes with functional links to milk synthesis were identified using differential gene expression in the mammary gland. CONCLUSIONS QTL detection and genomic prediction are usually considered independently but persistence of genomic prediction accuracies across breeds requires accurate estimation of QTL effects. We show that accuracy of across-breed genomic predictions was higher with BayesR than with GBLUP and that BayesR mapped QTL more precisely. Further improvements of across-breed accuracy of genomic predictions and QTL mapping could be achieved by increasing the size of the reference population, including more breeds, and possibly by exploiting pleiotropic effects to improve mapping efficiency for QTL with small effects.
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- Kathryn E Kemper
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
- La Trobe University, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
- Dairy Futures Co-operative Research Centre, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, Australia.
- Department of Environment and Primary Industries, AgriBio, Bundoora, 3086, Australia.
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Bolormaa S, Pryce JE, Kemper K, Savin K, Hayes BJ, Barendse W, Zhang Y, Reich CM, Mason BA, Bunch RJ, Harrison BE, Reverter A, Herd RM, Tier B, Graser HU, Goddard ME. Accuracy of prediction of genomic breeding values for residual feed intake and carcass and meat quality traits in Bos taurus, Bos indicus, and composite beef cattle. J Anim Sci 2013; 91:3088-104. [PMID: 23658330 DOI: 10.2527/jas.2012-5827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of genomic predictions for 19 traits including feed efficiency, growth, and carcass and meat quality traits in beef cattle. The 10,181 cattle in our study had real or imputed genotypes for 729,068 SNP although not all cattle were measured for all traits. Animals included Bos taurus, Brahman, composite, and crossbred animals. Genomic EBV (GEBV) were calculated using 2 methods of genomic prediction [BayesR and genomic BLUP (GBLUP)] either using a common training dataset for all breeds or using a training dataset comprising only animals of the same breed. Accuracies of GEBV were assessed using 5-fold cross-validation. The accuracy of genomic prediction varied by trait and by method. Traits with a large number of recorded and genotyped animals and with high heritability gave the greatest accuracy of GEBV. Using GBLUP, the average accuracy was 0.27 across traits and breeds, but the accuracies between breeds and between traits varied widely. When the training population was restricted to animals from the same breed as the validation population, GBLUP accuracies declined by an average of 0.04. The greatest decline in accuracy was found for the 4 composite breeds. The BayesR accuracies were greater by an average of 0.03 than GBLUP accuracies, particularly for traits with known genes of moderate to large effect mutations segregating. The accuracies of 0.43 to 0.48 for IGF-I traits were among the greatest in the study. Although accuracies are low compared with those observed in dairy cattle, genomic selection would still be beneficial for traits that are hard to improve by conventional selection, such as tenderness and residual feed intake. BayesR identified many of the same quantitative trait loci as a genomewide association study but appeared to map them more precisely. All traits appear to be highly polygenic with thousands of SNP independently associated with each trait.
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- S Bolormaa
- Victorian Department of Primary Industries, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia.
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Erbe M, Hayes BJ, Matukumalli LK, Goswami S, Bowman PJ, Reich CM, Mason BA, Goddard ME. Improving accuracy of genomic predictions within and between dairy cattle breeds with imputed high-density single nucleotide polymorphism panels. J Dairy Sci 2012; 95:4114-29. [PMID: 22720968 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2011-5019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 397] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2011] [Accepted: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Achieving accurate genomic estimated breeding values for dairy cattle requires a very large reference population of genotyped and phenotyped individuals. Assembling such reference populations has been achieved for breeds such as Holstein, but is challenging for breeds with fewer individuals. An alternative is to use a multi-breed reference population, such that smaller breeds gain some advantage in accuracy of genomic estimated breeding values (GEBV) from information from larger breeds. However, this requires that marker-quantitative trait loci associations persist across breeds. Here, we assessed the gain in accuracy of GEBV in Jersey cattle as a result of using a combined Holstein and Jersey reference population, with either 39,745 or 624,213 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. The surrogate used for accuracy was the correlation of GEBV with daughter trait deviations in a validation population. Two methods were used to predict breeding values, either a genomic BLUP (GBLUP_mod), or a new method, BayesR, which used a mixture of normal distributions as the prior for SNP effects, including one distribution that set SNP effects to zero. The GBLUP_mod method scaled both the genomic relationship matrix and the additive relationship matrix to a base at the time the breeds diverged, and regressed the genomic relationship matrix to account for sampling errors in estimating relationship coefficients due to a finite number of markers, before combining the 2 matrices. Although these modifications did result in less biased breeding values for Jerseys compared with an unmodified genomic relationship matrix, BayesR gave the highest accuracies of GEBV for the 3 traits investigated (milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield), with an average increase in accuracy compared with GBLUP_mod across the 3 traits of 0.05 for both Jerseys and Holsteins. The advantage was limited for either Jerseys or Holsteins in using 624,213 SNP rather than 39,745 SNP (0.01 for Holsteins and 0.03 for Jerseys, averaged across traits). Even this limited and nonsignificant advantage was only observed when BayesR was used. An alternative panel, which extracted the SNP in the transcribed part of the bovine genome from the 624,213 SNP panel (to give 58,532 SNP), performed better, with an increase in accuracy of 0.03 for Jerseys across traits. This panel captures much of the increased genomic content of the 624,213 SNP panel, with the advantage of a greatly reduced number of SNP effects to estimate. Taken together, using this panel, a combined breed reference and using BayesR rather than GBLUP_mod increased the accuracy of GEBV in Jerseys from 0.43 to 0.52, averaged across the 3 traits.
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- M Erbe
- Department of Animal Sciences, Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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Despite the considerable variation in milk composition found among mammals, a constituent common across all groups is lactose, the main sugar and osmole in most eutherians milk. Exceptions to this are the families Otariidae (fur seals and sea lions) and Odobenidae (walruses), where lactose has not been detected. We investigated the molecular basis for this by cloning alpha-lactalbumin, the modifier protein of the lactose synthase complex. A mutation was observed which, in addition to preventing lactose production, may enable otariids to maintain lactation despite the extremely long inter-suckling intervals during the mother's time at sea foraging (more than 23 days in some species).
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- Coralie M Reich
- CRC for Innovative Dairy Products, Department of Zoology, University of MelbourneVictoria 3010, Australia
- Author for correspondence ()
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin UniversityBurwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
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