Summary
Polledness has been shown to have autosomal Mendelian inheritance, with the polled locus being dominant to the horned locus. This trait was mapped to the BTA1 centromeric end in several breeds. One of the distinctive attributes of Creole cattle, such as the Argentinean Creole, is the presence of long, lyre-shaped horns. However, polled native animals were reported before the introduction of modern selected European breeds. Here, we studied the origin of the polled mutation, either independent or introgressed, in a Creole line from the Creole cattle founder group at the IIACS-INTA Leales Experimental Station (northwest Argentina).
The study sample (65 animals: 26 horned and 39 polled) was genotyped using high-density SNP microarrays and three previously reported genetic markers (P202ID, P80kbID and PG). A genome-wide association study, selection signatures, linkage disequi librium analysis and copy number variations were used to detect the responsible region and the segregating haplotypes/alleles.
The interval mapped in the Leales herd (1.23–2.13 Mb) overlapped with the region previously reported in several European cattle breeds, suggesting that the same locus could be segregating in this population. The previously reported variants PF and PG were not detected, thus dismissing the Holstein-Friesian and Nellore origins of the polled phenotype in this native breed. Conversely, the presence of the Celtic variant PC suggests an almost complete co-segregation. The cluster analysis rejected the hypothesis of recent introgression, which is compatible with the historical record of polled Creole cattle in northwest Argentina.
Keywords
bovine, genome-wide association study, microarray, native breed, polled, selective sweeps
Autores
A. H. Falomir-Lockhart*, M. F. Ortega Masague†, G. Rudd Garces*, M. E. Zappa*, P. Peral Garcıa*,
H. F. Morales*, F. D. Holgado†, A. Rogberg Mu~ noz*‡ and G. Giovambattista
*Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias UNLP, IGEVET– Instituto de Genetica Veterinaria (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), Calle 60 y 118 s/n, CC 296, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. †IIACS– Instituto de Investigacion Animal del Chaco Semiarido, (CIAP-INTA), Cha~ nar Pozo s/n, 4113, Leales, Tucuman, Argentina. ‡Departamento de Produccion Animal, Facultad de Agronomıa, Catedra de Mejoramiento Genetico
Animal, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Av. San Martin 4453, C1417DSE, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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