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Title:   Author  item
                                            XU, LINGYANG - University Of Marylanditem
                                            HOU, YALI - Chinese Academy Of Sciencesitem
                                            Bickhart, Derekitem
                                            SONG, JIUZHOU - University Of Marylanditem
                                            Van Tassell, Curtis

                                                         - *Curt*item
                                            Sonstegard, Taditem
                                            Liu, Ge

                                                         - *George*
  Submitted to: Functional and Integrative Genomics
                                    Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 2/9/2014
                                    Publication  Date: 4/10/2014
                                    Citation: Xu, L., Hou, Y., Bickhart, D.M., Song, J., Van Tassell, C.P., Sonstegard, T.S., Liu, G. 2014. A genome-wide survey reveals a deletion polymorphism associated with resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes in Angus cattle. Functional and Integrative Genomics. DOI:14(2):333-9.Interpretive Summary: Gastrointestinal nematode infections are a worldwide threat to animal health and production. Using a genome-wide association study based on copy number variations (CNV), we identified one deletion CNV and its neighboring genes associated with parasite resistance. Farmers, Scientist, and policy planners who need improve animal health and production based on genome-enable animal selection will benefit from this chapter.
                                Technical Abstract: Gastrointestinal (GI) nematode infections are a worldwide threat to animal health and production. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association study between copy number variations (CNV) and resistance to GI nematodes in an Angus cattle population. Using a linear regression analysis, we identified one deletion CNV which reaches genome-wide significance after Bonferroni correction. With multiple mapped human olfactory receptor genes but no annotated bovine genes in the region, this significantly associated CNV displays high population frequencies (58.26%) with a length of 104.8 kb on chr7. We further investigated the linkage disequilibrium (LD) relationships between this CNV and its nearby SNPs and genes. The underlining haplotype blocks contain immune related genes such as ZNF496 and NLRP3. As this CNV co-segregates with linked SNPs and associated genes, we suspect it could contribute to the detected variations in gene expression and thus differences in host parasite resistance.


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