Phenotypic impact of genomic structural variation: insights from and for human disease

J Weischenfeldt, O Symmons, F Spitz… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Genomic structural variants have long been implicated in phenotypic diversity and human
disease, but dissecting the mechanisms by which they exert their functional impact has …

[HTML][HTML] Breeding for resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes–the potential in low-input/output small ruminant production systems

PI Zvinorova, TE Halimani, FC Muchadeyi… - Veterinary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The control of gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) is mainly based on the use of drugs, grazing
management, use of copper oxide wire particles and bioactive forages. Resistance to …

Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS): a novel, efficient and cost-effective genotyping method for cattle using next-generation sequencing

M De Donato, SO Peters, SE Mitchell, T Hussain… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput genotyping methods have increased the analytical power to study complex
traits but high cost has remained a barrier for large scale use in animal improvement. We …

Structural variants in the soybean genome localize to clusters of biotic stress-response genes

LK McHale, WJ Haun, WW Xu, PB Bhaskar… - Plant …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide structural and gene content variations are hypothesized to drive important
phenotypic variation within a species. Structural and gene content variations were assessed …

Transcriptional profiling of mammary gland in Holstein cows with extremely different milk protein and fat percentage using RNA sequencing

X Cui, Y Hou, S Yang, Y Xie, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background Recently, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has rapidly emerged as a major
transcriptome profiling system. Elucidation of the bovine mammary gland transcriptome by …

Insights into genetic diversity, runs of homozygosity and heterozygosity-rich regions in Maremmana semi-feral cattle using pedigree and genomic data

F Biscarini, S Mastrangelo, G Catillo, G Senczuk… - Animals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In this study, we estimated genetic diversity in semi-feral Maremmana
cattle using both pedigree-and genomic-based approaches, and detected regions of …

Genome-wide detection of copy number variations using high-density SNP genotyping platforms in Holsteins

L Jiang, J Jiang, J Yang, X Liu, J Wang, H Wang… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) are widespread in the human or
animal genome and are a significant source of genetic variation, which has been …

Genome wide CNV analysis reveals additional variants associated with milk production traits in Holsteins

L Xu, JB Cole, DM Bickhart, Y Hou, J Song… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Milk production is an economically important sector of global agriculture. Much
attention has been paid to the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with …

CNV discovery for milk composition traits in dairy cattle using whole genome resequencing

Y Gao, J Jiang, S Yang, Y Hou, GE Liu, S Zhang… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) are important and widely distributed in
the genome. CNV detection opens a new avenue for exploring genes associated with …

Genome-wide study of structural variants in bovine Holstein, Montbéliarde and Normande dairy breeds

M Boussaha, D Esquerré, J Barbieri, A Djari, A Pinton… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput sequencing technologies have offered in recent years new opportunities to
study genome variations. These studies have mostly focused on single nucleotide …