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Classic Selective Sweeps Revealed by Massive Sequencing in Cattle

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Qanbari, Saber, Pausch, Hubert, Jansen, Sandra, Somel, Mehmet, Strom, Tim M., Fries, Ruedi, Nielsen, Rasmus, Simianer, Henner·2014·PLoS Genetics

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Human driven selection during domestication and subsequent breed formation has likely left detectable signatures within the genome of modern cattle. The elucidation of these signatures of selection is of interest from the perspective of evolutionary biology, and for identifying domestication-related genes that ultimately may help to further genetically improve this economically important animal. To this end, we employed a panel of more than 15 million autosomal SNPs identified from re-sequencing of 43 Fleckvieh animals. We mainly applied two somewhat complementary statistics, the integrated Haplotype Homozygosity Score (iHS) reflecting primarily ongoing selection, and the Composite of Likelihood Ratio (CLR) having the most power to detect completed selection after fixation of the advantageous allele. We find 106 candidate selection regions, many of which are harboring genes related to phenotypes relevant in domestication, such as coat coloring pattern, neurobehavioral functioning and sensory perception including KIT, MITF, MC1R, NRG4, Erbb4, TMEM132D and TAS2R16, among others. To further investigate the relationship between genes with signatures of selection and genes identified in QTL mapping studies, we use a sample of 3062 animals to perform four genome-wide association analyses using appearance traits, body size and somatic cell count. We show that regions associated with coat coloring significantly (P<0.0001) overlap with the candidate selection regions, suggesting that the selection signals we identify are associated with traits known to be affected by selection during domestication. Results also provide further evidence regarding the complexity of the genetics underlying coat coloring in cattle. This study illustrates the potential of population genetic approaches for identifying genomic regions affecting domestication-related phenotypes and further helps to identify specific regions targeted by selection during speciation, domestication and breed formation of cattle. We also show that Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) decays in cattle at a much faster rate than previously thought.

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Authors
Qanbari, S., Pausch, H., Jansen, S., Somel, M., Strom, T. M., Fries, R., Nielsen, R., & Simianer, H.
Affiliations
  • University of Göttingen (DE)
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Helmholtz Munich (DE)
Corresponding author
Qanbari, Saber
Venue
PLoS Genetics
Published
2014-02-27
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
e1004148
ISSN
  • 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
  • 1553-7404
OpenAlex
W2047669864
Cited by
233
References
79
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17.90
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journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (FKZ 0315528, 0315528)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
Keywords
cattle domestication, selective sweeps, Simmental cattle, coat color inheritance, KIT, MITF, MC1R, ErbB4, TAS2R16, linkage disequilibrium decay, genome-wide association study, body size, somatic cell count, breed formation
MeSH terms
Animals, Animals, Domestic, Breeding, Cattle, Genetics, Population, Haplotypes, Humans, Selection, Genetic, Linkage Disequilibrium, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study

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