• 농업과학연구
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.549-557
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• 2017

As exchanges between countries become more active, new threats such as drugs, illegal imports of food and medicines, and terrorism are present all over the world. From this, increased border security that protects people's safety is becoming a new issue. The activities of special purpose dogs that detect these threats in advance are becoming very important. One of the obstacles in securing superior individuals is musculoskeletal disorders which interfere with the work of special purpose dogs. In order to search for genes associated with these genetic disorders, we conducted genomic analysis using linkage disequilibrium information and investigated genetic characteristics to know heterozygosity and inbreeding status in the population. In this study, two breeds (Malinois, Shepherd) of army dogs and three breeds (Malinois, Shepherd, Retriever) from public databases were used for comparison. The 170K SNP marker panel was used for this study. In the principal component analysis, it was confirmed that clusters were formed for each breed. The number of effective populations differed for each cultivar, but this was due to the difference in numbers of individuals for each breed used for the analysis. The results of heterozygosity decay analysis showed that heterozygous alleles decreased with each generation. In the army dog group, if the population number is maintained properly, the frequency of allele genotype will not decrease significantly.

• 정보처리학회논문지A
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• 제13A권1호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2006

최근 인간의 다양성과 SNP과의 연관연구에 드는 비용을 줄이기 위해서, 최소의 tagSNP을 선택하는 문제를 해결하기 위한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 일반적으로 많은 수의 SNP들을 여러 블록으로 분할하여 각 블록 내에서 tagSNP을 선택하는 접근방법이 사용되고 있다. 본 논문에서 구현된 MarSel은 기존의 블록분할 접근 방법의 문제로 볼 수 있는 생물학적 의미의 부족을 해결하고자, 연관불균형(Linkage Disequilibrium, LD)의 개념을 도입한 시스템이다. 기존의 접근방법에서는 생물학적으로 재조합(recombination)이 일어나지 않는 연속된 구간에서도 여러 블록으로 나누어지는 문제가 생겼던 반면, MarSel에서는 연관불균형 계수 |D'|에 의해서 연속된 구간이 하나의 블록으로 유지된 상태에서 tagSNP을 선택하게 된다. 또한 MarSel에서는 각 블록 내에서 tagSNP을 선택 할 때에 엔트로피(entropy) 기반의 최적해 알고리즘을 이용함으로써 최소한의 tagSNP 선택을 보장하게 되며, 기존의 구현된 시스템들보다 더 많은 양의 데이터를 효율적으로 처리할 수 있도록 구현되었기 때문에 염색체 레벨의 연관 연구도 가능하게 해준다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.1250-1256
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• 2002

A novel fine-mapping method exploiting linkage disequilibrium (LD) was applied to better refine the quantitative trait loci (QTL) positions for milk production traits on bovine chromosome 14 in the pedigree comprising 22 paternal half-sib families of a Black-and-White Holstein-Friesian grand-daughter design in the Netherlands for a total of 1,034 sons. The chromosome map was constructed with the 31 genetic markers spanning 90 Kosambi cM with the average inter-marker distance of 3.5 cM. The linkage analyses, in which the effects of sire QTL alleles were assumed random and the random factor of the QTL allelic effects was incorporated into the Animal Model, found the QTL for milk, fat, and protein yield and fat and protein % with the Lod scores of 10.9, 2.3, 6.0, 25.4 and 3.2, respectively. The joint analyses including LD information by use of multi-marker haplotypes highly increased the evidence of the QTL (Lod scores were 25.1, 20.9, 11.0, 85.7 and 17.4 for the corresponding traits, respectively). The joint analyses including DGAT markers in the defined haplotypes again increased the QTL evidence and the most likely QTL positions for the five traits coincided with the position of the DGAT gene, supporting the hypothesis of the direct causal involvement of the DGAT gene. This study strongly indicates that the exploitation of LD information will allow additional gains of power and precision in finding and localising QTL of interest in livestock species, on the condition of high marker density around the QTL region.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.539-546
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• 2020

Objective: The Jeju native pig (JNP) found on the Jeju Island of Korea is a unique black pig known for high-quality meat. To investigate the genetic uniqueness of JNP, we analyzed the selection signature of the JNP in comparison to commercial pigs such as Berkshire and Yorkshire pigs. Methods: We surveyed the genetic diversity to identify the genetic stability of the JNP, using the linkage disequilibrium method. A selective sweep of the JNP was performed to identify the selection signatures. To do so, the population differentiation measure, Weir-Cockerham's F_st was utilized. This statistic directly measures the population differentiation at the variant level. Additionally, we investigated the gene ontologies (GOs) and genetic features. Results: Compared to the Berkshire and Yorkshire pigs, the JNP had lower genetic diversity in terms of linkage disequilibrium decays. We summarized the selection signatures of the JNP as GO. In the JNP and Berkshire pigs, the most enriched GO terms were epithelium development and neuron-related. Considering the JNP and Yorkshire pigs, cellular response to oxygen-containing compound and generation of neurons were the most enriched GO. Conclusion: The selection signatures of the JNP were identified through the population differentiation statistic. The genes with possible selection signatures are expected to play a role in JNP's unique pork quality.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.1078-1087
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• 2018

Objective: The genetic diversity of the Landrace population, a representative maternal pig breed in Korea, is important for genetic improvement. Previously, the effective population size (Ne) has been used to infer the genetic diversity of a population of interest. In this study, we aimed to use single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data to characterize linkage disequilibrium (LD) and the Ne of the Korean Landrace population. Methods: We genotyped 1,128 Landrace individuals from three representative Korean major grand-grand-parent (GGP) farms using the Illumina PorcineSNP60 version2 BeadChip, which covers >61,565 SNPs located across all autosomes and mitochondrial and sex chromosomes. We estimated the expected LD and current Ne, as well as ancestral Ne. Results: In the Korean Landrace population, the mean LD ($r^2$) of 3.698 million SNP pairs was $0.135{\pm}0.204$. The mean $r^2$ decreased slowly with as the distance between SNPs increased, and remained constant beyond 3 Mb. According to the $r^2$ calculations, 8,085 of 3.698 million SNP pairs were in complete LD. The current Ne (${\pm}$standard deviation) of the Korean Landrace population is approximately 92.27 [79.46; 105.07] individuals. The ancestral Ne exhibited a slow and steady decline from 186.61 to 92.27 over the past 100 generations. Additionally, we observed more a rapid Ne decrease from the past 20 to 10 generations ago, compared with other intervals. Conclusion: We have presented an overview of LD and the current and ancestral Ne values in the Korean Landrace population. The mean LD and current Ne for the Korean Landrace population confirm the genetic diversity and reflect the history of this pig population in Korea.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.149-153
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• 2005

Asthma is an inflammatory airways disease characterized by bronchial hyperresponsiveness and airways obstruction, which results from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors. Interleukin (IL)-13 and IL-4 are important in IgE synthesis and allergic inflammation, therefore genes encoding IL-13 and IL-4 are candidates for predisposition to asthma. In the present study, we screened single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in IL-13 and IL-4 and examined whether they are risk factors for asthma. We resequenced all exons and the promoter region in 12 asthma patients and 12 normal controls, and identified 18 SNPs including 2 novel SNPs. The linkage disequilibrium(LD) pattern was evaluated with 16 common SNPs, and haplotypes were also estimated within the block. Although IL-13 and IL-4 are localized within 27 kb on chromosome 5q31 and share many biological profiles, this region was partitioned into 2 blocks. One SNP and three SNPs were determined as haplotype-taggingSNPs (htSNPs) within IL-13 and IL-4 haplotype-block, respectively. No significant associations were observed between any of the SNPs or haplotypes and development of asthma in small number of Korean subjects. However, the genetic variants of IL-13 and IL-4 would provide valuable strategies for the genotyping studies in large population.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 단일염기변이(SNP: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism)와 같은 유전형(Rcnotype)자료에서 결측치가 발생하였을 경우 유전형 자료의 특이성을 고려해 자료 원래의 정보손실을 최소화하는 대치법인 연관불균형 기반의 대치법(linkage disequilibrium- based imputation)과 일배체형 기반의 대치법(haplotype-based imputation)을 제시한다. 이러한 결측치 대치는 실험상에서 발생하는 결측치에 의한 중요한 정보의 손실을 최소화 한다는 점에서 필요한 방법이다. 일반적으로 그동안 생물학 자료의 결측치 대치는 대부분 주형질 대치법(major allele imputation)이 활용되어왔는데 유전형 자료에서의 이 방법의 사용은 사료의 특이성으로 인하여 결측치에 대한 높은 오차율(error rate)을 보임으로서 자료의 신뢰성을 떨어뜨릴 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 유전형 자료인 단일염기변이 자료의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 기존의 주형질 대치법과 논문에서 제안된 연관불균형 기반의 대치법과 일배체형 기반의 대치법을 비교하고 그 결과를 보여 준다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.5-13
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• 1979

공기시료채칩 종료후 공기여과지에 채집된 시료중 방사능을 일정한 시간구간을 두어 계측함으로써 얻은 붕괴곡선을 이론적 방법에 의하여 분석할 수 있는 간단한 방법을 개발하였으며, 이 방법을 이용하여 라돈 붕괴생성물 각각의 공기중 방사능 농도를 결정하였다. 라돈 붕괴생성물 각 핵종의 방사능 농도는 알파붕괴, 시료채집시간, 그리고 수치계수의 함수로 표시된 방정식으로 부터 얻었다. 그리고 대기중 라돈 붕괴생성물 개개의 방사평형상태도 또한 조사하였다. TRIGA Mark-III 원자로실내에서 채집한 공기시료는 상당히 비평형상태에 있었다. 라돈 붕괴생성물들 간의 방사성 불평형의 정도는 공기와류조건과 관련된 공기시료 채집시간에 따라 상당히 달라지는 것같았다. 본 연구 결과에서 얻은 자료는 인체 내부방사선 피폭선량평가와 기체 방사성 물질 방출감시기 교정에 유용한 기초자료가될 것이 확실하다.

• 암석학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.64-80
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• 2004

한반도 남동부에서 어일분지내의 마이오세 화산암류는 성분상 규장질(67.2-70.5wt.% SiO$_2$)과 염기성(49.3-55.2wt.% SiO$_2$)으로 구성되는 쌍모식 조성을 나타낸다. 이 분지에서의 쌍모식 화산작용은 분지 발달과정과 밀접하게 연관되어 있으며, 화산암류는 분지내의 두터운 퇴적암층내에 협재되어 있으며, 특징적으로 반정 광물조합의 비평형을 나타낸다. 현무암질 용암에서는 융식된 석영 반정과 공존하는 감람석과 사방휘석 반정이 산출되고, 데사이트-유문암질 용결회류응회암에서는 사방휘석과 단사휘석이 반정으로 출현한다. 구성 광물상의 불균형으로부터 어일분지에서 일어난 쌍모식 화산활동에서 서로 다른 성분의 마그마 혼합이 크게 작용하였음을 시사해준다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.1843-1851
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• 2018

Objective: We aimed to characterize linkage disequilibrium (LD) and effective population size ($N_e$) in a Korean Yorkshire population using genomic data from thousands of individuals. Methods: We genotyped 2,470 Yorkshire individuals from four major Grand-Grand-Parent farms in Korea using the Illumina PorcineSNP60 version2 BeadChip, which covers >61,565 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located across all chromosomes and mitochondria. We estimated the expected LD and inferred current $N_e$ as well as ancestral $N_e$. Results: We identified 61,565 SNP from autosomes, mitochondria, and sex chromosomes and characterized the LD of the Yorkshire population, which was relatively high between closely linked markers (>0.55 at 50 kb) and declined with increasing genetic distance. The current $N_e$ of this Korean Yorkshire population was 122.87 (106.90; 138.84), while the historical $N_e$ of Yorkshire pigs suggests that the ancestor $N_e$ has decreased by 99.6% over the last 10,000 generations. Conclusion: To maintain genetic diversity of a domesticated animal population, we must carefully consider appropriate breed management methods to avoid inbreeding. Although attenuated selection can affect short-term genetic gain, it is essential for maintaining the long-term genetic variability of the Korean Yorkshire population. Continuous and long-term monitoring would also be needed to maintain the pig population to avoid an unintended reduction of $N_e$. The best way to preserve a sustainable population is to maintain a sufficient $N_e$.