A meta-assembly of selection signatures in cattle

IAS Randhawa, MS Khatkar, PC Thomson… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Since domestication, significant genetic improvement has been achieved for many traits of
commercial importance in cattle, including adaptation, appearance and production. In …

[HTML][HTML] Invited review: Good practices in genome-wide association studies to identify candidate sequence variants in dairy cattle

G Sahana, Z Cai, MP Sanchez, AC Bouwman… - Journal of Dairy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Genotype data from dairy cattle selection programs have greatly facilitated GWAS to identify
variants related to economic traits. Results can enhance the accuracy of genomic prediction …

Genome-wide fine-mapping identifies pleiotropic and functional variants that predict many traits across global cattle populations

R Xiang, IM MacLeod, HD Daetwyler, G de Jong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The difficulty in finding causative mutations has hampered their use in genomic prediction.
Here, we present a methodology to fine-map potentially causal variants genome-wide by …

Bovine Genome Database: new tools for gleaning function from the Bos taurus genome

CG Elsik, DR Unni, CM Diesh, A Tayal… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We report an update of the Bovine Genome Database (BGD)(http://BovineGenome. org).
The goal of BGD is to support bovine genomics research by providing genome annotation …

Runs of homozygosity and signatures of selection: a comparison among eight local Swiss sheep breeds

H Signer‐Hasler, A Burren, P Ammann… - Animal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A dataset consisting of 787 animals with high‐density SNP chip genotypes (346 774 SNP s)
and 939 animals with medium‐density SNP chip genotypes (33 828 SNPs) from eight …

SNPchiMp v. 3: integrating and standardizing single nucleotide polymorphism data for livestock species

EL Nicolazzi, A Caprera, N Nazzicari, P Cozzi, F Strozzi… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background In recent years, the use of genomic information in livestock species for genetic
improvement, association studies and many other fields has become routine. In order to …

Genomic scans for selective sweeps through haplotype homozygosity and allelic fixation in 14 indigenous sheep breeds from Middle East and South Asia

S Eydivandi, MA Roudbar, MO Karimi, G Sahana - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The performance and productivity of livestock have consistently improved by natural and
artificial selection over the centuries. Both these selections are expected to leave patterns on …

WIDDE: a Web-Interfaced next generation database for genetic diversity exploration, with a first application in cattle

G Sempéré, K Moazami-Goudarzi, A Eggen, D Laloë… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background The advent and democratization of next generation sequencing and genotyping
technologies lead to a huge amount of data for the characterization of population genetic …

Sequenced-based GWAS for linear classification traits in Belgian Blue beef cattle reveals new coding variants in genes regulating body size in mammals

JL Gualdrón Duarte, C Yuan, AS Gori… - Genetics Selection …, 2023 - Springer
Background Cohorts of individuals that have been genotyped and phenotyped for genomic
selection programs offer the opportunity to better understand genetic variation associated …

Genetic diversity analyses reveal first insights into breed‐specific selection signatures within Swiss goat breeds

A Burren, M Neuditschko, H Signer‐Hasler… - Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We used genotype data from the caprine 50k Illumina BeadChip for the assessment of
genetic diversity within and between 10 local Swiss goat breeds. Three different cluster …