Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants : I : feed efficiency and component traits

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creativework.keywords - en
genetic architecture
feed efficiency
beef cattle
imputed whole genome sequence variants
genome wide association study
creativework.keywords - fr
l'architecture génétique
efficacité alimentaire
bovins de boucherie
variants de séquences de génomes entiers imputés
étude d'association pangénomique
dc.contributor.author
Zhang, Feng
Wang, Yining
Mukiibi, Robert
Chen, Liuhong
Vinsky, Michael
Plastow, Graham
Basarab, John
Stothard, Paul
Li, Changxi
dc.date.accessioned
2023-04-13T19:24:25Z
dc.date.available
2023-04-13T19:24:25Z
dc.date.issued
2020-01-13
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Background: Genome wide association studies (GWAS) on residual feed intake (RFI) and its component traits including daily dry matter intake (DMI), average daily gain (ADG), and metabolic body weight (MWT) were conducted in a population of 7573 animals from multiple beef cattle breeds based on 7,853,211 imputed whole genome sequence variants. The GWAS results were used to elucidate genetic architectures of the feed efficiency related traits in beef cattle. Results: The DNA variant allele substitution effects approximated a bell-shaped distribution for all the traits while the distribution of additive genetic variances explained by single DNA variants followed a scaled inverse chi-squared distribution to a greater extent. With a threshold of P-value < 1.00E-05, 16, 72, 88, and 116 lead DNA variants on multiple chromosomes were significantly associated with RFI, DMI, ADG, and MWT, respectively. In addition, lead DNA variants with potentially large pleiotropic effects on DMI, ADG, and MWT were found on chromosomes 6, 14 and 20. On average, missense, 3’UTR, 5’UTR, and other regulatory region variants exhibited larger allele substitution effects in comparison to other functional classes. Intergenic and intron variants captured smaller proportions of additive genetic variance per DNA variant. Instead 3’UTR and synonymous variants explained a greater amount of genetic variance per DNA variant for all the traits examined while missense, 5’UTR and other regulatory region variants accounted for relatively more additive genetic variance per sequence variant for RFI and ADG, respectively. In total, 25 to 27 enriched cellular and molecular functions were identified with lipid metabolism and carbohydrate metabolism being the most significant for the feed efficiency traits. Conclusions: RFI is controlled by many DNA variants with relatively small effects whereas DMI, ADG, and MWT are influenced by a few DNA variants with large effects and many DNA variants with small effects. Nucleotide polymorphisms in regulatory region and synonymous functional classes play a more important role per sequence variant in determining variation of the feed efficiency traits. The genetic architecture as revealed by the GWAS of the imputed 7,853,211 DNA variants will improve our understanding on the genetic control of feed efficiency traits in beef cattle.
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Zhang, F., Wang, Y., Mukiibi, R., Chen, L., Vinsky, M., Plastow, G., Basarab, J., Stothard, P., &; Li, C. (2020). Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants: I: Feed efficiency and component traits. BMC Genomics, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6362-1
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-019-6362-1
dc.identifier.issn
1471-2164
dc.identifier.uri
https://open-science.canada.ca/handle/123456789/154
dc.language.iso
en
dc.publisher
Springer Nature
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Gold
dc.rights.openaccesslevel - fr
Or
dc.subject - en
Agriculture
dc.subject - fr
Agriculture
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Agriculture
dc.subject.fr - fr
Agriculture
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Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants : I : feed efficiency and component traits
dc.title.fosrctranslation - en
Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants : I : feed efficiency and component traits
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Article
dc.type - fr
Article
local.article.journalissue
36
local.article.journaltitle
BMC Genomics
local.article.journalvolume
21
local.peerreview - en
Yes
local.peerreview - fr
Oui
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