A genome-wide association study reveals additive and dominance effects on growth and fatness traits in large white pigs,Animal Genetics

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A genome-wide association study reveals additive and dominance effects on growth and fatness traits in large white pigs
Animal Genetics ( IF 2.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 , DOI: 10.1111/age.13131
W Yang ₁ , J Wu ₂ , J Yu ₁ , X Zheng ₃ , H Kang ₄ , Z Wang ₂ , S Zhang ₁ , L Zhou ₁ , J Liu ₁

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The dominance effect is a kind of non-additive effect due to the interaction between alleles at the same locus. Quantitative traits such as growth traits in farm animals have been found to be influenced by dominance effects. However, dominance effects are usually ignored in the genome-wide association study (GWAS) of complex traits for farm animals. In this study, we performed GWAS and genetic parameters estimation for the two traits age at 100 kg (AGE) and backfat thickness at 100 kg (BF) of 3572 Large White pigs. The pigs were from three breeding farms of China and were genotyped by an in-house designed 50k SNP chip. Our results showed significant non-zero variance for the dominance effect of AGE, while the dominance effect of BF was not significant. Using a GWAS model accounting for both additive and dominance effects, we identified three additive and two dominance significant SNPs for the trait AGE. For the trait BF, three genome-wide significant additive SNPs were detected, but no significant SNP was found for the dominance effect. In total, six important functional genes (NPAS3, USP16, PARN, ARL15, GPC3, ABHD4) near significant SNPs were identified as candidate genes associated with AGE or BF. Notably, ARL15 and PARN were associated with AGE near the dominance association signals. Overall, the newly detected SNPs and newly identified candidate genes in our study added new information about the genetic architectures of growth and fatness traits in pigs, and have the potential to be applied to the pig breeding program in the future.

更新日期：2021-09-06

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