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Evidence of positive selection towards Zebuine haplotypes in the BoLA region of Brangus cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2017

D. E. Goszczynski ,
C. M. Corbi-Botto ,
H. M. Durand ,
A. Rogberg-Muñoz ,
S. Munilla ,
P. Peral-Garcia ,
R. J. C. Cantet  and
G. Giovambattista
D. E. Goszczynski*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
C. M. Corbi-Botto
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
H. M. Durand
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A. Rogberg-Muñoz
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Producción, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción Animal (INPA) (UBA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
S. Munilla
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción Animal (INPA) (UBA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
P. Peral-Garcia
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
R. J. C. Cantet
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción Animal (INPA) (UBA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
G. Giovambattista
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Instituto de Genética Veterinaria (IGEVET) (UNLP-CONICET LA PLATA), La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*
†E-mail: ggiovam@fcv.unlp.edu.ar
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Abstract

The Brangus breed was developed to combine the superior characteristics of both of its founder breeds, Angus and Brahman. It combines the high adaptability to tropical and subtropical environments, disease resistance, and overall hardiness of Zebu cattle with the reproductive potential and carcass quality of Angus. It is known that the major histocompatibility complex (MHC, also known as bovine leucocyte antigen: BoLA), located on chromosome 23, encodes several genes involved in the adaptive immune response and may be responsible for adaptation to harsh environments. The objective of this work was to evaluate whether the local breed ancestry percentages in the BoLA locus of a Brangus population diverged from the estimated genome-wide proportions and to identify signatures of positive selection in this genomic region. For this, 167 animals (100 Brangus, 45 Angus and 22 Brahman) were genotyped using a high-density single nucleotide polymorphism array. The local ancestry analysis showed that more than half of the haplotypes (55.0%) shared a Brahman origin. This value was significantly different from the global genome-wide proportion estimated by cluster analysis (34.7% Brahman), and the proportion expected by pedigree (37.5% Brahman). The analysis of selection signatures by genetic differentiation (Fst) and extended haplotype homozygosity-based methods (iHS and Rsb) revealed 10 and seven candidate regions, respectively. The analysis of the genes located within these candidate regions showed mainly genes involved in immune response-related pathway, while other genes and pathways were also observed (cell surface signalling pathways, membrane proteins and ion-binding proteins). Our results suggest that the BoLA region of Brangus cattle may have been enriched with Brahman haplotypes as a consequence of selection processes to promote adaptation to subtropical environments.

Keywords

Brangusmajor histocompatibility complexselection signaturesBoLAancestral haplotypes
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animal , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , February 2018 , pp. 215 - 223
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Both authors contributed equally to this work.

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