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Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to perform a genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) for androstenone, skatole and indole in different Pietrain sire lines and compare the results with previous findings in purebred populations. Furthermore, the genetic relationship of androstenone and skatole w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z |
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author | Große-Brinkhaus, Christine Storck, Leonie C Frieden, Luc Neuhoff, Christiane Schellander, Karl Looft, Christian Tholen, Ernst |
author_facet | Große-Brinkhaus, Christine Storck, Leonie C Frieden, Luc Neuhoff, Christiane Schellander, Karl Looft, Christian Tholen, Ernst |
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description | BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to perform a genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) for androstenone, skatole and indole in different Pietrain sire lines and compare the results with previous findings in purebred populations. Furthermore, the genetic relationship of androstenone and skatole were investigated with respect to pleiotropy. In order to characterize the performance of intact boars, crossbred progenies of 136 Pietrain boars mated to crossbred sows from three different breeding companies were tested on four test stations. A total of 598 boars were performance tested according to the rules of stationary performance testing in Germany. Beside common fattening and carcass composition traits, the concentrations of the boar taint components and testicular size parameters were recorded. All boars were genotyped with the PorcineSNP60 Illumina BeadChip. The GWAS were performed using the whole data set as well as in sub groups according to the line of origin. Besides an univariate GWAS approach, principal component (PC) techniques were applied to identify common expression pattern affecting the biosynthesis and the metabolism of androstenone. RESULTS: In total, 33 SNPs were significantly associated with at least one of the boar taint components. Only one SNP was identified being significant in both subgroups. The analyses of the testes size parameters revealed 31 significant associations. The numbers of significant SNPs within the genetic groups evidenced the strong population specific effects. A multivariate approach using PC revealed 33 significant associations for five different PC. CONCLUSIONS: Based on Pietrain sired cross bred boars, the mayor objective of our study was to identify QTL for boar taint components and to detect pleiotropy among boar taint and testes traits. The high number of identified QTL revealed that boar taint traits are influenced by a large number of loci. Analyzing pleiotropy allowed identifying a QTL affecting androstenone and the gonasomatic index. In this region, QTL for ovulation rate and age at puberty of sows have been described in literature. This supports the physiological findings that the androstenone level of boars and reproduction performance of sows might be linked by an antagonistic relationship. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-44299352015-05-14 Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects Große-Brinkhaus, Christine Storck, Leonie C Frieden, Luc Neuhoff, Christiane Schellander, Karl Looft, Christian Tholen, Ernst BMC Genet Research Article BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to perform a genome-wide association analyses (GWAS) for androstenone, skatole and indole in different Pietrain sire lines and compare the results with previous findings in purebred populations. Furthermore, the genetic relationship of androstenone and skatole were investigated with respect to pleiotropy. In order to characterize the performance of intact boars, crossbred progenies of 136 Pietrain boars mated to crossbred sows from three different breeding companies were tested on four test stations. A total of 598 boars were performance tested according to the rules of stationary performance testing in Germany. Beside common fattening and carcass composition traits, the concentrations of the boar taint components and testicular size parameters were recorded. All boars were genotyped with the PorcineSNP60 Illumina BeadChip. The GWAS were performed using the whole data set as well as in sub groups according to the line of origin. Besides an univariate GWAS approach, principal component (PC) techniques were applied to identify common expression pattern affecting the biosynthesis and the metabolism of androstenone. RESULTS: In total, 33 SNPs were significantly associated with at least one of the boar taint components. Only one SNP was identified being significant in both subgroups. The analyses of the testes size parameters revealed 31 significant associations. The numbers of significant SNPs within the genetic groups evidenced the strong population specific effects. A multivariate approach using PC revealed 33 significant associations for five different PC. CONCLUSIONS: Based on Pietrain sired cross bred boars, the mayor objective of our study was to identify QTL for boar taint components and to detect pleiotropy among boar taint and testes traits. The high number of identified QTL revealed that boar taint traits are influenced by a large number of loci. Analyzing pleiotropy allowed identifying a QTL affecting androstenone and the gonasomatic index. In this region, QTL for ovulation rate and age at puberty of sows have been described in literature. This supports the physiological findings that the androstenone level of boars and reproduction performance of sows might be linked by an antagonistic relationship. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4429935/ /pubmed/25879925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z Text en © Grosse-Brinkhaus et al.; BioMed Central.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Große-Brinkhaus, Christine Storck, Leonie C Frieden, Luc Neuhoff, Christiane Schellander, Karl Looft, Christian Tholen, Ernst Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title | Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title_full | Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title_fullStr | Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title_full_unstemmed | Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title_short | Genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
title_sort | genome-wide association analyses for boar taint components and testicular traits revealed regions having pleiotropic effects |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4429935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0194-z |
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