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Evidence for pleiotropism and recent selection in the PLAG1 region in Australian Beef cattle

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Title
Evidence for pleiotropism and recent selection in the PLAG1 region in Australian Beef cattle
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Animal Genetics, August 2013
DOI 10.1111/age.12075
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M. R. S. Fortes, K. Kemper, S. Sasazaki, A. Reverter, J. E. Pryce, W. Barendse, R. Bunch, R. McCulloch, B. Harrison, S. Bolormaa, Y. D. Zhang, R. J. Hawken, M. E. Goddard, S. A. Lehnert

Abstract

A putative functional mutation (rs109231213) near PLAG1 (BTA14) associated with stature was studied in beef cattle. Data from 8199 Bos taurus, Bos indicus and Tropical Composite cattle were used to test the associations between rs109231213 and various phenotypes. Further, 23 496 SNPs located on BTA14 were tested for association with these phenotypes, both independently and fitted together with rs109231213. The C allele of rs109231213 significantly increased hip height, weight, net food intake, age at puberty in males and females and decreased IGF-I concentration in blood and fat depth. When rs109231213 was fitted as a fixed effect in the model, there was an overall reduction in associations between other SNPs and these traits but some SNPs remained associated (P < 10(-4) ). Frequency of the mutant C allele of rs109231213 differed among B. indicus (0.52), B. taurus (0.96) and Tropical Composite (0.68). Most chromosomes carrying the C allele had the same surrounding 10 SNP haplotype, probably because the C allele was introgressed into Brahman from B. taurus cattle. A region of reduced heterozygosity surrounds the C allele; this is small in B. taurus but 20 Mb long in Brahmans, indicating recent and strong selection for the mutant allele. Thus, the C allele appears to mark a mutation that has been selected almost to fixation in the B. taurus breeds studied here and introduced into Brahman cattle during grading up and selected to a frequency of 0.52 despite its negative effects on fertility.

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Country Count As %
Colombia 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Uganda 1 1%
Unknown 65 96%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 25%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Master 6 9%
Researcher 6 9%
Other 5 7%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 17 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 46%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 10 15%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 6%
Mathematics 1 1%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 20 29%