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Hersberger-Zurfluh MA, Motro M, Kantarci A, Will LA, Eliades T, Papageorgiou SN. Genetic and environmental impact on mandibular growth in mono- and dizygotic twins during adolescence: A retrospective cohort study. Int Orthod 2024; 22:100842. [PMID: 38217936 DOI: 10.1016/j.ortho.2023.100842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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INTRODUCTION This study aimed to discover the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the mandibular development of untreated monozygotic and dizygotic twins. MATERIAL AND METHODS The sample, taken from the Forsyth Moorrees Twin Study, included 52 untreated monozygotic twins (36 male, 16 female) and 46 untreated dizygotic twins (23 male, 23 female). At the ages of 12 and 17, lateral cephalograms were collected and traced to assess total mandibular length, mandibular ramus length, mandibular corpus length, gonial angle, SNB, and bony chin prominence. The genetic and environmental components of variation were assessed using multilevel mixed-effects structural equation modelling. RESULTS At 12 years of age, high additive genetic influences were observed for total mandibular length (74%), gonial angle (76%), SNB (41%), and bony chin prominence (64%), whereas strong dominant genetic components were observed for corpus length (72%), and mandibular ramus length was under unique environment influence (54%). At 17 years of age, only total mandibular length (45%), ramus length (53%), gonial angle (76%), and bony chin prominence (68%) were under strong additive genetic control, while the remainder were under strong dominant genetic control. CONCLUSIONS Although monozygotic and dizygotic twins share at least a portion of their DNA, additive, dominant, or environmental components were discovered during adolescence. Nonetheless, by the age of 17, the majority of the mandibular traits are under either additive or dominant genetic impact.
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- Monika A Hersberger-Zurfluh
- Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA
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- Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Mass; Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA
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- Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA
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- Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Clinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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de Oliveira LF, Brito LF, Marques DBD, da Silva DA, Lopes PS, Dos Santos CG, Johnson JS, Veroneze R. Investigating the impact of non-additive genetic effects in the estimation of variance components and genomic predictions for heat tolerance and performance traits in crossbred and purebred pig populations. BMC Genom Data 2023; 24:76. [PMID: 38093199 PMCID: PMC10717470 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-023-01174-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Non-additive genetic effects are often ignored in livestock genetic evaluations. However, fitting them in the models could improve the accuracy of genomic breeding values. Furthermore, non-additive genetic effects contribute to heterosis, which could be optimized through mating designs. Traits related to fitness and adaptation, such as heat tolerance, tend to be more influenced by non-additive genetic effects. In this context, the primary objectives of this study were to estimate variance components and assess the predictive performance of genomic prediction of breeding values based on alternative models and two independent datasets, including performance records from a purebred pig population and heat tolerance indicators recorded in crossbred lactating sows. RESULTS Including non-additive genetic effects when modelling performance traits in purebred pigs had no effect on the residual variance estimates for most of the traits, but lower additive genetic variances were observed, especially when additive-by-additive epistasis was included in the models. Furthermore, including non-additive genetic effects did not improve the prediction accuracy of genomic breeding values, but there was animal re-ranking across the models. For the heat tolerance indicators recorded in a crossbred population, most traits had small non-additive genetic variance with large standard error estimates. Nevertheless, panting score and hair density presented substantial additive-by-additive epistatic variance. Panting score had an epistatic variance estimate of 0.1379, which accounted for 82.22% of the total genetic variance. For hair density, the epistatic variance estimates ranged from 0.1745 to 0.1845, which represent 64.95-69.59% of the total genetic variance. CONCLUSIONS Including non-additive genetic effects in the models did not improve the accuracy of genomic breeding values for performance traits in purebred pigs, but there was substantial re-ranking of selection candidates depending on the model fitted. Except for panting score and hair density, low non-additive genetic variance estimates were observed for heat tolerance indicators in crossbred pigs.
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- Letícia Fernanda de Oliveira
- Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil.
- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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- Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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- USDA-ARS Livestock Behavior Research Unit, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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Alipanah M, Roudbari Z, Momen M, Esmailizadeh A. Impact of inclusion non-additive effects on genome-wide association and variance's components in Scottish black sheep. Anim Biotechnol 2023; 34:3765-3773. [PMID: 37343283 DOI: 10.1080/10495398.2023.2224845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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CONTEXT It's well-documented that most economic traits have a complex genetic structure that is controlled by additive and non-additive gene actions. Hence, knowledge of the underlying genetic architecture of such complex traits could aid in understanding how these traits respond to the selection in breeding and mating programs. Computing and having estimates of the non-additive effect for economic traits in sheep using genome-wide information can be important because; non-additive genes play an important role in the prediction accuracy of genomic breeding values and the genetic response to the selection. AIM This study aimed to assess the impact of non-additive effects (dominance and epistasis) on the estimation of genetic parameters for body weight traits in sheep. METHODS This study used phenotypic and genotypic belonging to 752 Scottish Blackface lambs. Three live weight traits considered in this study were included in body weight at 16, 20, and 24 weeks). Three genetic models including additive (AM), additive + dominance (ADM), and additive + dominance + epistasis (ADEM), were used. KEY RESULTS The narrow sense heritability for weight at 16 weeks of age (BW16) were 0.39, 0.35, and 0.23, for 20 weeks of age (BW20) were 0.55, 0.54, and 0.42, and finally for 24 weeks of age (BW24) were 0.16, 0.12, and 0.02, using the AM, ADM, and ADEM models, respectively. The additive genetic model significantly outperformed the non-additive genetic model (p < 0.01). The dominance variance of the BW16, BW20, and BW24 accounted for 38, 6, and 30% of the total phenotypic, respectively. Moreover, the epistatic variance accounted for 39, 0.39, and 47% of the total phenotypic variances of these traits, respectively. In addition, our results indicated that the most important SNPs for live weight traits are on chromosomes 3 (three SNPS including s12606.1, OAR3_221188082.1, and OAR3_4106875.1), 8 (OAR8_16468019.1, OAR8_18067475.1, and OAR8_18043643.1), and 19 (OAR19_18010247.1), according to the genome-wide association analysis using additive and non-additive genetic model. CONCLUSIONS The results emphasized that the non-additive genetic effects play an important role in controlling body weight variation at the age of 16-24 weeks in Scottish Blackface lambs. IMPLICATIONS It is expected that using a high-density SNP panel and the joint modeling of both additive and non-additive effects can lead to better estimation and prediction of genetic parameters.
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- Masoud Alipanah
- Department of Plant Production, University of Torbat Heydarieh, Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Jiroft, Jiroft, Iran
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- Department of Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Animal Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
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Assessment of parametric and non-parametric methods for prediction of quantitative traits with non-additive genetic architecture. ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.2478/aoas-2020-0087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Whole genome evaluation of quantitative traits using suitable statistical methods enables researchers to predict genomic breeding values (GEBVs) more accurately. Recent studies suggested that the ability of methods in terms of predictive performance may depend on the genetic architecture of traits. Therefore, when choosing a statistical method, it is essential to consider the genetic architecture of the target traits. Herein, the performance of parametric methods i.e. GBLUP and BayesB and non-parametric methods i.e. Bagging GBLUP and Random Forest (RF) were compared for traits with different genetic architecture. Three scenarios of genetic architecture, including purely Additive (Add), purely Epistasis (Epis) and Additive-Dominance-Epistasis (ADE) were considered. To this end, an animal genome composed of five chromosomes, each chromosome harboring 1000 SNPs and four QTL was simulated. Predictive accuracies in the first generation of testing set under Additive genetic architectures for GBLUP, BayesB, Baging GBLUP and RF were 0.639, 0.731, 0.633 and 0.548, respectively, and were 0.278, 0.330, 0.275 and 0.444 under purely Epistatic genetic architectures. Corresponding values for the Additive-Dominance-Epistatic structure also were 0.375, 0.448, 0.369 and 0.458, respectively. The results showed that genetic architecture has a great impact on prediction accuracy of genomic evaluation methods. When genetic architecture was purely Additive, parametric methods and Bagging GBLUP were better than RF, whereas under Epistatic and Additive-Dominance-Epistatic genetic architectures, RF delivered better predictive performance than the other statistical methods.
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Estimation of Additive and Dominance Genetic Effects on Body Weight, Carcass and Ham Quality Traits in Heavy Pigs. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11020481. [PMID: 33670417 PMCID: PMC7918433 DOI: 10.3390/ani11020481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Simple Summary The response to genetic selection in animal populations depends on both additive and nonadditive (e.g., dominance) effects. Neglecting nonadditive effects in genetic evaluations, when they are relevant, may lead to an overestimation of the genetic progress achievable. Our study evidenced that dominance effects influence the prediction of the total genetic progress achievable in heavy pigs, for growth, carcass, fresh ham and dry-cured ham seasoning traits, and indicated that neglecting nonadditive effects leads to an overestimation of the additive genetic variance. However, goodness of fit and ranking of breeding candidates obtained by models including litter and dominance effects simultaneously were not different from those obtained by models including only litter effects. Consequently, accounting for litter effects in the models for genetic evaluations, even when neglecting dominance effects, would be sufficient to prevent possible consequences arising from the overestimation of the genetic variance, with no repercussions on the ranking of animals and on accuracy of breeding values, ensuring at the same time computational efficiency. Abstract Neglecting dominance effects in genetic evaluations may overestimate the predicted genetic response achievable by a breeding program. Additive and dominance genetic effects were estimated by pedigree-based models for growth, carcass, fresh ham and dry-cured ham seasoning traits in 13,295 crossbred heavy pigs. Variance components estimated by models including litter effects, dominance effects, or both, were compared. Across traits, dominance variance contributed up to 26% of the phenotypic variance and was, on average, 22% of the additive genetic variance. The inclusion of litter, dominance, or both these effects in models reduced the estimated heritability by 9% on average. Confounding was observed among litter, additive genetic and dominance effects. Model fitting improved for models including either the litter or dominance effects, but it did not benefit from the inclusion of both. For 15 traits, model fitting slightly improved when dominance effects were included in place of litter effects, but no effects on animal ranking and accuracy of breeding values were detected. Accounting for litter effects in the models for genetic evaluations would be sufficient to prevent the overestimation of the genetic variance while ensuring computational efficiency.
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Zhu S, Zhao H, Han M, Yuan C, Guo T, Liu J, Yue Y, Qiao G, Wang T, Li F, Gun S, Yang B. Genomic Prediction of Additive and Dominant Effects on Wool and Blood Traits in Alpine Merino Sheep. Front Vet Sci 2020; 7:573692. [PMID: 33263012 PMCID: PMC7686030 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.573692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Dominant genetic effects may provide a critical contribution to the total genetic variation of quantitative and complex traits. However, investigations of genome-wide markers to study the genomic prediction (GP) and genetic mechanisms of complex traits generally ignore dominant genetic effects. The increasing availability of genomic datasets and the potential benefits of the inclusion of non-additive genetic effects in GP have recently renewed attention to incorporation of these effects in genomic prediction models. In the present study, data from 498 genotyped Alpine Merino sheep were adopted to estimate the additive and dominant genetic effects of 9 wool and blood traits via two linear models: (1) an additive effect model (MAG) and (2) a model that included both additive and dominant genetic effects (MADG). Moreover, a method of 5-fold cross validation was used to evaluate the capability of GP in the two different models. The results of variance component estimates for each trait suggested that for fleece extension rate (73%), red blood cell count (28%), and hematocrit (25%), a large component of phenotypic variation was explained by dominant genetic effects. The results of cross validation demonstrated that the MADG model, comprising additive and dominant genetic effects, did not display an apparent advantage over the MAG model that included only additive genetic effects, i.e., the model that included dominant genetic effects did not improve the capability for prediction of the genomic model. Consequently, inclusion of dominant effects in the GP model may not be beneficial for wool and blood traits in the population of Alpine Merino sheep.
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- Shaohua Zhu
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Sheep Breeding Technology Extension Station, Sunan, China
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- Gansu Provincial Sheep Breeding Technology Extension Station, Sunan, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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- Animal Science Department, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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Bonnafous F, Fievet G, Blanchet N, Boniface MC, Carrère S, Gouzy J, Legrand L, Marage G, Bret-Mestries E, Munos S, Pouilly N, Vincourt P, Langlade N, Mangin B. Comparison of GWAS models to identify non-additive genetic control of flowering time in sunflower hybrids. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018. [PMID: 29098310 DOI: 10.1101/188235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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This study compares five models of GWAS, to show the added value of non-additive modeling of allelic effects to identify genomic regions controlling flowering time of sunflower hybrids. Genome-wide association studies are a powerful and widely used tool to decipher the genetic control of complex traits. One of the main challenges for hybrid crops, such as maize or sunflower, is to model the hybrid vigor in the linear mixed models, considering the relatedness between individuals. Here, we compared two additive and three non-additive association models for their ability to identify genomic regions associated with flowering time in sunflower hybrids. A panel of 452 sunflower hybrids, corresponding to incomplete crossing between 36 male lines and 36 female lines, was phenotyped in five environments and genotyped for 2,204,423 SNPs. Intra-locus effects were estimated in multi-locus models to detect genomic regions associated with flowering time using the different models. Thirteen quantitative trait loci were identified in total, two with both model categories and one with only non-additive models. A quantitative trait loci on LG09, detected by both the additive and non-additive models, is located near a GAI homolog and is presented in detail. Overall, this study shows the added value of non-additive modeling of allelic effects for identifying genomic regions that control traits of interest and that could participate in the heterosis observed in hybrids.
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- Fanny Bonnafous
- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France.
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Bonnafous F, Fievet G, Blanchet N, Boniface MC, Carrère S, Gouzy J, Legrand L, Marage G, Bret-Mestries E, Munos S, Pouilly N, Vincourt P, Langlade N, Mangin B. Comparison of GWAS models to identify non-additive genetic control of flowering time in sunflower hybrids. TAG. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. THEORETISCHE UND ANGEWANDTE GENETIK 2018; 131:319-332. [PMID: 29098310 PMCID: PMC5787229 DOI: 10.1007/s00122-017-3003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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This study compares five models of GWAS, to show the added value of non-additive modeling of allelic effects to identify genomic regions controlling flowering time of sunflower hybrids. Genome-wide association studies are a powerful and widely used tool to decipher the genetic control of complex traits. One of the main challenges for hybrid crops, such as maize or sunflower, is to model the hybrid vigor in the linear mixed models, considering the relatedness between individuals. Here, we compared two additive and three non-additive association models for their ability to identify genomic regions associated with flowering time in sunflower hybrids. A panel of 452 sunflower hybrids, corresponding to incomplete crossing between 36 male lines and 36 female lines, was phenotyped in five environments and genotyped for 2,204,423 SNPs. Intra-locus effects were estimated in multi-locus models to detect genomic regions associated with flowering time using the different models. Thirteen quantitative trait loci were identified in total, two with both model categories and one with only non-additive models. A quantitative trait loci on LG09, detected by both the additive and non-additive models, is located near a GAI homolog and is presented in detail. Overall, this study shows the added value of non-additive modeling of allelic effects for identifying genomic regions that control traits of interest and that could participate in the heterosis observed in hybrids.
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- Fanny Bonnafous
- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France.
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, Université de Toulouse, INRA, CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Genomic selection models for directional dominance: an example for litter size in pigs. Genet Sel Evol 2018; 50:1. [PMID: 29373954 PMCID: PMC5787328 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-018-0374-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background The quantitative genetics theory argues that inbreeding depression and heterosis are founded on the existence of directional dominance. However, most procedures for genomic selection that have included dominance effects assumed prior symmetrical distributions. To address this, two alternatives can be considered: (1) assume the mean of dominance effects different from zero, and (2) use skewed distributions for the regularization of dominance effects. The aim of this study was to compare these approaches using two pig datasets and to confirm the presence of directional dominance. Results Four alternative models were implemented in two datasets of pig litter size that consisted of 13,449 and 11,581 records from 3631 and 2612 sows genotyped with the Illumina PorcineSNP60 BeadChip. The models evaluated included (1) a model that does not consider directional dominance (Model SN), (2) a model with a covariate b for the average individual homozygosity (Model SC), (3) a model with a parameter λ that reflects asymmetry in the context of skewed Gaussian distributions (Model AN), and (4) a model that includes both b and λ (Model Full). The results of the analysis showed that posterior probabilities of a negative b or a positive λ under Models SC and AN were higher than 0.99, which indicate positive directional dominance. This was confirmed with the predictions of inbreeding depression under Models Full, SC and AN, that were higher than in the SN Model. In spite of differences in posterior estimates of variance components between models, comparison of models based on LogCPO and DIC indicated that Model SC provided the best fit for the two datasets analyzed. Conclusions Our results confirmed the presence of positive directional dominance for pig litter size and suggested that it should be taken into account when dominance effects are included in genomic evaluation procedures. The consequences of ignoring directional dominance may affect predictions of breeding values and can lead to biased prediction of inbreeding depression and performance of potential mates. A model that assumes Gaussian dominance effects that are centered on a non-zero mean is recommended, at least for datasets with similar features to those analyzed here. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12711-018-0374-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Moghaddar N, van der Werf JHJ. Genomic estimation of additive and dominance effects and impact of accounting for dominance on accuracy of genomic evaluation in sheep populations. J Anim Breed Genet 2017; 134:453-462. [DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- N. Moghaddar
- School of Environmental and Rural Science; University of New England; Armidale NSW Australia
- Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation; Armidale NSW Australia
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- School of Environmental and Rural Science; University of New England; Armidale NSW Australia
- Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Industry Innovation; Armidale NSW Australia
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Guo X, Christensen OF, Ostersen T, Wang Y, Lund MS, Su G. Genomic prediction using models with dominance and imprinting effects for backfat thickness and average daily gain in Danish Duroc pigs. Genet Sel Evol 2016; 48:67. [PMID: 27623617 PMCID: PMC5022243 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-016-0245-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Dominance and imprinting genetic effects have been shown to contribute to genetic variance for certain traits but are usually ignored in genomic prediction of complex traits in livestock. The objectives of this study were to estimate variances of additive, dominance and imprinting genetic effects and to evaluate predictions of genetic merit based on genomic data for average daily gain (DG) and backfat thickness (BF) in Danish Duroc pigs. METHODS Corrected phenotypes of 8113 genotyped pigs from breeding and multiplier herds were used. Four Bayesian mixture models that differed in the type of genetic effects included: (A) additive genetic effects, (AD) additive and dominance genetic effects, (AI) additive and imprinting genetic effects, and (ADI) additive, dominance and imprinting genetic effects were compared using Bayes factors. The ability of the models to predict genetic merit was compared with regard to prediction reliability and bias. RESULTS Based on model ADI, narrow-sense heritabilities of 0.18 and 0.31 were estimated for DG and BF, respectively. Dominance and imprinting genetic effects accounted for 4.0 to 4.6 and 1.3 to 1.4 % of phenotypic variance, respectively, which were statistically significant. Across the four models, reliabilities of the predicted total genetic values (GTV, sum of all genetic effects) ranged from 16.1 (AI) to 18.4 % (AD) for DG and from 30.1 (AI) to 31.4 % (ADI) for BF. The least biased predictions of GTV were obtained with model AD, with regression coefficients of corrected phenotypes on GTV equal to 0.824 (DG) and 0.738 (BF). Reliabilities of genomic estimated breeding values (GBV, additive genetic effects) did not differ significantly among models for DG (between 16.5 and 16.7 %); however, for BF, model AD provided a significantly higher reliability (31.3 %) than model A (30.7 %). The least biased predictions of GBV were obtained with model AD with regression coefficients of 0.872 for DG and 0.764 for BF. CONCLUSIONS Dominance and genomic imprinting effects contribute significantly to the genetic variation of BF and DG in Danish Duroc pigs. Genomic prediction models that include dominance genetic effects can improve accuracy and reduce bias of genomic predictions of genetic merit.
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- Xiangyu Guo
- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
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- Danish Pig Research Centre, SEGES P/S, 1609 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 People’s Republic of China
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
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- Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
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Evaluation of polygenic risks for narcolepsy and essential hypersomnia. J Hum Genet 2016; 61:873-878. [DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2016.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2015] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ibáñez-Escriche N, Forni S, Noguera JL, Varona L. Genomic information in pig breeding: Science meets industry needs. Livest Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2014.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Nagy I, Gorjanc G, Curik I, Farkas J, Kiszlinger H, Szendrő Z. The contribution of dominance and inbreeding depression in estimating variance components for litter size in Pannon White rabbits. J Anim Breed Genet 2012; 130:303-11. [PMID: 23855632 DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2012] [Accepted: 11/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In a synthetic closed population of Pannon White rabbits, additive (VA ), dominance (VD ) and permanent environmental (VPe ) variance components as well as doe (bF d ) and litter (bF l ) inbreeding depression were estimated for the number of kits born alive (NBA), number of kits born dead (NBD) and total number of kits born (TNB). The data set consisted of 18,398 kindling records of 3883 does collected from 1992 to 2009. Six models were used to estimate dominance and inbreeding effects. The most complete model estimated VA and VD to contribute 5.5 ± 1.1% and 4.8 ± 2.4%, respectively, to total phenotypic variance (VP ) for NBA; the corresponding values for NBD were 1.9 ± 0.6% and 5.3 ± 2.4%, for TNB, 6.2 ± 1.0% and 8.1 ± 3.2% respectively. These results indicate the presence of considerable VD . Including dominance in the model generally reduced VA and VPe estimates, and had only a very small effect on inbreeding depression estimates. Including inbreeding covariates did not affect estimates of any variance component. A 10% increase in doe inbreeding significantly increased NBD (bF d = 0.18 ± 0.07), while a 10% increase in litter inbreeding significantly reduced NBA (bF l = -0.41 ± 0.11) and TNB (bF l = -0.34 ± 0.10). These findings argue for including dominance effects in models of litter size traits in populations that exhibit significant dominance relationships.
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- I Nagy
- Faculty of Animal Science, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary
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Bayesian adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of genetic parameters. Heredity (Edinb) 2012; 109:235-45. [PMID: 22805656 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2012.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Accurate and fast estimation of genetic parameters that underlie quantitative traits using mixed linear models with additive and dominance effects is of great importance in both natural and breeding populations. Here, we propose a new fast adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling algorithm for the estimation of genetic parameters in the linear mixed model with several random effects. In the learning phase of our algorithm, we use the hybrid Gibbs sampler to learn the covariance structure of the variance components. In the second phase of the algorithm, we use this covariance structure to formulate an effective proposal distribution for a Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, which uses a likelihood function in which the random effects have been integrated out. Compared with the hybrid Gibbs sampler, the new algorithm had better mixing properties and was approximately twice as fast to run. Our new algorithm was able to detect different modes in the posterior distribution. In addition, the posterior mode estimates from the adaptive MCMC method were close to the REML (residual maximum likelihood) estimates. Moreover, our exponential prior for inverse variance components was vague and enabled the estimated mode of the posterior variance to be practically zero, which was in agreement with the support from the likelihood (in the case of no dominance). The method performance is illustrated using simulated data sets with replicates and field data in barley.
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