Efficiency of haplotype-based methods to fine-map QTLs and embryonic lethal variants affecting fertility: Illustration with a deletion segregating in Nordic Red cattle
recessive variants; ancestral haplotypes; lack of homozygosity; association studies
Abstract :
[en] Despite its importance, fertility has been declining in many cattle populations. In dairy
cattle, this decline is often attributed to the negative correlation between fertility and
productions traits. Recent studies showed that embryonic lethal variants might also
account for a non-negligible fraction of the fertility decline. Therefore identification of
such embryonic lethal variants is essential to improve fertility. We herein illustrate, with
an example of a large recessive lethal deletion recently identified in Nordic Red cattle, that
haplotype-based method are particularly efficient to identify such embryonic lethal
variants. We first show that haplotypes can be used in traditional QTL mapping
approaches and that they present very high linkage disequilibrium with underlying
variants. Haplotypes can also be used in scan for lack of homozygosity. Indeed,if a
haplotype is associated to a recessive lethal variant, significantly fewer living individuals
will be homozygote for that haplotype than expected. For both approaches, haplotype-
based methods were particularly efficient. The lack of homozygosity approach achieved
higher significance than the QTL approach. Only frequent variants can be detected with
both approaches unless huge genotyped cohorts are available. An alternative approach
would rely on identifying potential harmful variants in next-generation sequencing data
followed by the genotyping of a larger population for these variants.
Kadri, Naveen Kumar ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > GIGA-R : Génomique animale
Sahana, Goutam
Guldbrandtsen, Bernt
Lund, Mogens Sand
Druet, Tom ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de productions animales > GIGA-R : Génomique animale
Language :
English
Title :
Efficiency of haplotype-based methods to fine-map QTLs and embryonic lethal variants affecting fertility: Illustration with a deletion segregating in Nordic Red cattle
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