Genome-Wide Scan of Wool Production Traits in Akkaraman Sheep
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The objective of this study was to uncover the genetic background of wool quality, a production trait, by estimating genomic heritability and implementing GWAS in Akkaraman sheep. The wool characteristics measured included fibre diameter (FD) and staple length (SL) at the age of 8 months and yearling fibre diameter (YFD), yearling staple length (YSL) and yearling greasy fleece weight (YGFW) at 18 months of age. Animals were genotyped using the Axiom 50 K Ovine Genotyping Array. Maximum likelihood estimations of a linear mixed model (LMM) were used to estimate genomic heritability, where GWAS was conducted following a score test of each trait. Genomic heritability estimates for the traits ranged between 0.22 and 0.63, indicating that phenotypes have a moderate range of heritability. One genome- and six chromosome-wide significant SNPs were associated with the wool traits in Akkaraman lambs. Accordingly, TRIM2, MND1, TLR2, RNF175, CEP290, TMTC3, RERE, SLC45A1, SOX2, MORN1, SKI, FAAP20, PRKCZ, GABRD, CFAP74, CALML6 and TMEM52 genes as well as nine uncharacterized regions (LOC101118971, LOC105609137, LOC105603067, LOC101122892, LOC106991694, LOC106991467, LOC106991455, LOC105616534 and LOC105609719) were defined as plausible candidates. The findings of this study shed light on the genetics of wool quality and yield for the Akkaraman breed and suggests targets for breeders during systematic breeding programmes.
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The authors provide exon-level annotation of genes that have contributed to livestock domestication and desirable commercial traits.
“As a first step to support a possible future marker assisted selection scheme152–154 for the muskox, we provide exon-level annotation of genes that have contributed to livestock domestication (Supplementary Table S8) and desirable commercial traits such as meat and dairy production, wool quality, prolificity, and heat tolerance155–159 (Supplementary Table S9).”
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The Results (§3.3) identify candidate genes associated with wool traits in Akkaraman sheep, supporting the wool-quality part of the citation. The Methods (§2.4) describe annotating significant SNPs and candidate genes, not providing exon-level annotations of domestication genes or the full range of commercial traits listed. In the citing sentence, “we provide exon-level annotation” describes the citing authors’ work, not a finding attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Arzik, Y., Kizilaslan, M., Behrem, S., White, S. N., Piel, L. M. W., & Cinar, M. U.
- Affiliations
- Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Türkiye
- Aksaray University (TR)
- Washington State University (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Genes
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023-03-14
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 713
- ISSN
- 2073-4425 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10048666
- OpenAlex
- W4324385655
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 5
- FWCI
- 6.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Genes (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Erciyes University (FDK-2020-10807)
- 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 Associations and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- Akkaraman sheep, wool quality, fiber diameter, staple length, greasy fleece weight, genomic heritability, genome-wide association study, candidate genes, sheep breeding
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Genotype, Phenotype, Sheep, Wool, Genome, Genomics
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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