Large-effect pleiotropic or closely linked QTL segregate within and across ten US cattle breeds

BMC Genomics

Dorian J Garrick³  Jeremy F Taylor¹  Robert D Schnabel¹  Mahdi Saatchi² 

[1] Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA;Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, USA;Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

关键词: SNP;    QTL;    Pleiotropy;    GWAS;    Cattle;    Candidate gene;   

Others  :  1216649
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2164-15-442

 received in 2014-01-15, accepted in 2014-05-30,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The availability of high-density SNP assays including the BovineSNP50 (50 K) enables the identification of novel quantitative trait loci (QTL) and improvement of the resolution of the locations of previously mapped QTL. We performed a series of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using 50 K genotypes scored in 18,274 animals from 10 US beef cattle breeds with observations for twelve body weights, calving ease and carcass traits.

Results

A total of 159 large-effects QTL (defined as 1-Mb genome windows explaining more than 1% of additive genetic variance) were identified. In general, more QTL were identified in analyses with bigger sample sizes. Four large-effect pleiotropic or closely linked QTLs located on BTA6 at 37–42 Mb (primarily at 38 Mb), on BTA7 at 93 Mb, on BTA14 at 23–26 Mb (primarily at 25 Mb) and on BTA20 at 4 Mb were identified in more than one breed. Several breed-specific large-effect pleiotropic or closely linked QTL were also identified. Some identified QTL regions harbor genes known to have large effects on a variety of traits in cattle such as PLAG1 and MSTN and others harbor promising candidate genes including NCAPG, ARRDC3, ERGIC1, SH3PXD2B, HMGA2, MSRB3, LEMD3, TIGAR, SEPT7, and KIRREL3. Gene ontology analysis revealed that genes involved in ossification and in adipose tissue development were over-represented in the identified pleiotropic QTL. Also, the MAPK signaling pathway was identified as a common pathway affected by the genes located near the pleiotropic QTL.

Conclusions

This largest GWAS ever performed in beef cattle, led us to discover several novel across-breed and breed-specific large-effect pleiotropic QTL that cumulatively account for a significant percentage of additive genetic variance (e.g. more than a third of additive genetic variance of birth and mature weights; and calving ease direct in Hereford). These results will improve our understanding of the biology of growth and body composition in cattle.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Saatchi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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