• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.1702-1705
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• 2006

A simulation study was conducted to evaluate a fine-mapping method exploiting population-wide linkage disequilibrium. Data were simulated according to the pedigree structure based on a large paternal half-sib family population with a total of 1,034 or 2,068 progeny. Twenty autosomes of 100 cM were generated with 5 cM or 1 cM marker intervals for all founder individuals in the pedigree, and marker alleles and a number of quantitative trait loci (QTL) explaining a total of 70% phenotypic variance were generated and randomly assigned across the whole chromosomes, assuming linkage equilibrium between the markers. The founder chromosomes were then descended through the pedigree to the current offspring generation, including recombinants that were generated by recombination between adjacent markers. Power to detect QTL was high for the QTL with at least moderate size, which was more pronounced with larger sample size and denser marker map. However, sample size contributed much more significantly to power to detect QTL than map density to the precise estimate of QTL position. No QTL was detected on the test chromosomes in which QTL was not assigned, which did not allow detection of false positive QTL. For the multiple QTL that were closely located, the estimates of the QTL positions were biased, except when the QTL were located on the right marker positions. Our fine mapping simulation results indicate that construction of dense maps and large sample size is needed to increase power to detect QTL and mapping precision for QTL position.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.1669-1674
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• 2005

Maximum likelihood methodology was applied to analyze the efficiency and statistical power of interval mapping by using a threshold model. The factors that affect QTL detection efficiency (e.g. QTL effect, heritability and incidence of categories) were simulated in our study. Daughter design with multiple families was applied, and the size of segregating population is 500. The results showed that the threshold model has a great advantage in parameters estimation and power of QTL mapping, and has nice efficiency and accuracy for discrete traits. In addition, the accuracy and power of QTL mapping depended on the effect of putative quantitative trait loci, the value of heritability and incidence directly. With the increase of QTL effect, heritability and incidence of categories, the accuracy and power of QTL mapping improved correspondingly.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.473-480
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• 2003

In order to control the genetic background noise in QTL mapping, cofactor markers were incorporated in single marker analysis (SMACO) and interval mapping (CIM). A simulation was performed to see how effective the cofactors were by the number of QTL, the number and the type of markers, and the marker spacing. The results of QTL mapping for the simulated data showed that the use of cofactors was slightly effective when detecting a single QTL. On the other hand, a considerable improvement was observed when dealing with more than one QTL. Genetic background noise was efficiently absorbed with linked markers rather than unlinked markers. Furthermore, the efficiency was different in QTL mapping depending on the type of linked markers. Well-chosen markers in both SMACO and CIM made the range of linkage position for a significant QTL narrow and the estimates of QTL effects accurate. Generally, 3 to 5 cofactors offered accurate results. Over-fitting was a problem with many regressor variables when the heritability was small. Various marker spacing from 4 to 20 cM did not change greatly the detection of multiple QTLs, but they were less efficient when the marker spacing exceeded 30 cM. Likelihood ratio increased with a large heritability, and the threshold heritability for QTL detection was between 0.30 and 0.05.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.85-100
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• 2008

Gray leaf spot (GLS)은 Pyricufaria oryzae Cavara에 의해 발병하는 중요한 곰팡이병으로 최근 주요 잔디류 및 목초류에 해당하는 퍼레니얼 라이그래스 (Perennial ryegrass; Lolium perenne L.)에서 발생되는 것으로 보고되었다. 또한 이 곰팡이는 벼의 도열병을 일으키는데, 이는 기주 저항성에 의해 방제될 수 있지만 이 저항성의 지속기간에 문제가 있는 것으로 알려져 있다. 지금까지 퍼레니얼 라이그래스에서는 GLS 저항성에 관한 내용이 거의 보고되지 않았다. 그러나 이탈리안 라이그래스 x 퍼레니얼 라이그래스 mapping population에서 GLS 저항성에 관한 주요 양적형질 유전자좌 (QTL)가 연관군 (linkage group) 3과 6 상에서 각각 발견되었다. 이 두 가지 양적형질 유전자좌가 다음 세대에서도 여전히 나타나고, 이들이 다른 유전적 배경 하에서도 기능할 수 있다는 사실을 확인하기 위해 기존의 mapping population으로부터 나온 저항성 개체를 저항성을 갖고 있지 않은 다른 퍼레니얼 클론과 교잡시켜 새로운 mapping population을 만들었다. 이 새로운 mapping population에서 RAPD, RFLP 및 SSR 마커를 이용하여 QTL 분석을 실시하였다. 이 결과, 비록 연관군 6 상에서는 양적형질 유전자좌가 확인되지 않았지만 연관군 3 상의 양적형질 유전자좌는 새로운 mapping population에서도 여전히 나타나고 있음이 확인되었다. 또한 두 개의 새로운 양적형질 유전자좌가 저항성을 갖고 있지 않았던 부모개체에서도 발견되었다. 본 실험 결과는 라이그래스에 있어서 GLS 저항성의 유전적 구조를 이해하는데 도움을 줄 뿐만 아니라 퍼레니얼 라이그래스 육종 프로그램에 사용상 편의성을 제고시킬 것이다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.587-596
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• 2001

In the last decade, rapid developments in molecular biotechnology and of genomic tools have enabled the creation of dense linkage maps across whole genomes of human, plant and animals. Successful development and implementation of interval mapping methodologies have allowed detection of the quantitative trait loci (QTL) responsible for economically important traits in experimental and commercial livestock populations. The candidate gene approach can be used in any general population with the availability of a large resource of candidate genes from the human or rodent genomes using comparative maps, and the validated candidate genes can be directly applied to commercial breeds. For the QTL detected from primary genome scans, two incipient fine mapping approaches are applied by generating new recombinants over several generations or utilizing historical recombinants with identity-by-descent (IBD) and linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping. The high resolution definition of QTL position from fine mapping will allow the more efficient implementation of breeding programs such as marker-assisted selection (MAS) or marker-assisted introgression (MAI), and will provide a route toward cloning the QTL.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to improve mapping power and resolution for the QTL influencing carcass quality in Hanwoo, which was previously detected on the bovine chromosome (BTA) 6. A sample of 427 steers were chosen, which were the progeny from 45 Korean proven sires in the Hanwoo Improvement Center, Seosan, Korea. The samples were genotyped with the set of 2,535 SNPs on BTA6 that were imbedded in the Illumina bovine 50 k chip. A linkage disequilibrium variance component mapping (LDVCM) method, which exploited both linkage between sires and their steers and population-wide linkage disequilibrium, was applied to detect QTL for four carcass quality traits. Fifteen QTL were detected at 0.1% comparison-wise level, for which five, three, five, and two QTL were associated with carcass weight (CWT), backfat thickness (BFT), longissimus dorsi muscle area (LMA), and marbling score (Marb), respectively. The number of QTL was greater compared with our previous results, in which twelve QTL for carcass quality were detected on the BTA6 in the same population by applying other linkage disequilibrium mapping approaches. One QTL for LMA was detected on the distal region (110,285,672 to 110,633,096 bp) with the most significant evidence for linkage (p< $10^{-5}$). Another QTL that was detected on the proximal region (33,596,515 to 33,897,434 bp) was pleiotrophic, i.e. influencing CWT, BFT, and LMA. Our results suggest that the LDVCM is a good alternative method for QTL fine-mapping in detection and characterization of QTL.

• 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.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제95권4호
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• pp.483-494
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• 2006

테다소나무 7-1037 클론에서 얻은 반형매 풍매 차대의 반수체 DNA에 대해 AFLP 표지자 분석을 수행하여 유전연관지도를 작성하고, 6년생 때의 수고 및 흉고직경 생장에 대한 QTL mapping을 수행하였다. 121개 AFLP 표지자로 전체 연관거리 1,869 cM, marker간 평균거리 18.5 cM의 20개 framework map을 작성하였다. Composite interval mapping 방법에 의해 수고 생장의 전체 표현형 변이의 5.9%를 설명할 수 있는 l개의 QTL과 흉고직경 생장 변이의 3.9~5.6%를 설명할 수 있는 3개의 QTL을 동정하였으며, QTL 간의 상호작용 효과는 없었다. 수고 생장에 대한 QTL의 유전적 효과는 39.6cm이었고, 흉고직경 생장에서는 7.20~9.41 mm인 것으로 추정되었다. 상기 QTL들과 가장 가깝게 연관되어 있는 표지자를 이용하여 대립유전자 치환의 평균효과(average effect of gene substitution)를 산출한 결과, 수고생장에서는 44.3 cm, 흉고직경 생장에서는 8.38~11.81 mm이었다. 테다소나무의 생장에 대한 가계내 개체유전력을 0.2 이하로 가정한다면, 본 연구에서 확인된 QTL은 7-1037 클론의 반형매 풍매 차대가 보유한 상가적 유전분산의 26.8%를 설명할 수 있어 표현형에 의한 개체선발보다 선발효율에서 5배나 높은 것으로 추정되었다. 본 연구에서 제시된 반형매 풍매 차대를 이용한 QTL mapping 분석은 채종원을 기반으로 하는 선발육종 사업에서 필요한 breeding value 등의 정보를 제공한다는 측면에서 인공교배 가계를 이용한 기타의 QTL 분석에 비해 보다 현실적이고 적용성이 높은 방법론이라 생각된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.457-462
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to detect QTL for carcass quality on bovine chromosome (BTA) 6 using a high density SNP map in a Hanwoo population. The data set comprised 45 sires and their 427 Hanwoo steers that were born between spring of 2005 and fall of 2007. The steers that were used for progeny testing in the Hanwoo Improvement Center in Seosan, Korea, were genotyped with the 2,535SNPs on BTA6 that were embedded in the Illumina bovine SNP 50K chip. Four different linkage disequilibrium (LD) mapping models were applied to detect significant SNPs for carcass quality traits; the fixed model with a single marker, the random model with a single marker, the random model with haplotype effects using two adjacent markers, and the random model at hidden state. A total of twelve QTL were detected, for which four, one, three and four SNPs were detected on BTA6 under the respective models (p<0.001). Among the detected QTL, four, two, five and one QTL were associated with carcass weight, backfat thickness, longissimus dorsi muscle area, and marbling score, respectively (p<0.001). Our results suggest that the use of multiple LD mapping approaches may be beneficial in increasing power to detect QTL given a limited sample size and magnitude of QTL effect.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.1505-1510
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• 2001

A method for mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) was introduced incorporating the information of mixed progeny from complex pedigrees. The method consisted of two steps based on single marker analysis. The first step was to examine the marker-trait association with a mixed model considering common environmental effect and reversed QTL-marker linkage phase. The second step was to estimate QTL effects by a weighted least square analysis. A simulation study indicated that the method incorporating mixed progeny from multiple generations improved the accuracy of QTL detection. The influence of within-genotype variance and recombination rate on QTL analysis was further examined. Detecting a QTL with a large within-genotype variance was more difficult than with a small within-genotype variance. Most of the significant marker-QTL association was detectable when the recombination rate was less than 15%.