Identificação de SNPs e rotas metabólicas associadas à maciez da carne em bovinos nelore mocho

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2016-03-04

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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Brazil has one of the largest commercial cattle herds worldwide, but its meat quality is highly variable. The national herd is largely composed of Bos indicus breeds, which in general have less tender meat than Bos taurus cattle, decreasing the product value. This study was carried out to identify relevant regions and biological pathways associated with meat tenderness in Polled Nellore cattle. It was also aimed to evaluate the effect of different quality control protocols in GWAS for meat tenderness in Polled Nellore cattle. The data consisted of Warner-Bratzler shear force (WBSF) values of Longissimus muscle after 7 days of ageing, from 427 Polled Nellore animals. The animals were genotyped using either the Illumina BovineHD Beadchip (777k) or the GGP-Indicus Chip (77k). SNPs were excluded when Call Rate < 90%, then the imputation from the GGP to the HD Chip was performed using the FImput’s software. To study the different quality control protocols and their influence in GWAS, 590,915 markers were used. The effect of different QCs were verified using 16 protocols with three thresholds for MAF (MAF < 0.01; < 0.05 and < 0.10) and HWP (p < 0.01; < 0.0001 and < 0.00001) and their possible combinations. GWASs were performed using the PD3/EMMAx method with the remaining markers of each QC. For GWAS performed for pathway analysis, 369,007 markers were used after SNPs were excluded when Call rate < 90%, HWP p < 0.01 and MAF < 0.01. Group of slaughter and sex were included as fixed effects. Significant markers (p < 0.0001) were found in all analysis, in which the chromosomes with more significant SNPs of the different QCs were 3, 17, 20, 21, 25 and 27, and in the pathway study were located on chromosomes 3, 13, 17, 20, 21 and 25 explaining great proportion of variation, indicating possible QTLs associated with meat tenderness in those genomic regions. The analyses of different QCs showed that there is an effect of quality control over GWAS, and the filter for MAF influenced the results more broadly. A pathway enrichment analysis based on SNPs from GWAS was performed using FatiGO’s procedure. 22,365 annotated genes, including 1,010 significant genes were used. Thus, 22 GO terms and two IP entries were deemed enriched. Several of these functional categories, such as protein tyrosine and serine/threonine kinase activity, calcium ion binding and growth factors can be related to WBSF in Polled Nellore cattle. These results help to elucidate the metabolic pathways related to this trait, which is of extreme economic and social importance to Brazil as Nellore is the dominant beef cattle breed in the country.

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CASTRO, L. M. Identificação de SNPs e rotas metabólicas associadas à maciez da carne em bovinos nelore mocho. 2016. 96 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciência Animal) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2016.