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Litter size is one of the most important economic traits for pig production as it is directly related to the production efficiency. As an important litter size trait in pigs, the number of piglets born alive at birth (NBA) receives widespread interests in the pig industry. However, traits of piglets born dead, including the number of stillborn piglets (NS) and the piglets mummified at birth (NM) should be noted to explain the loss of reproduction. Herein, in the present study, a total of 803 producing sows were sampled and 2807 farrowing records for NBA, NM, and NS traits were collected in a Duroc swine population. Subsequently, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed for NBA, NS and NM in parity groups 1 to 5. In total, 10 putative regions were found associated with these traits. After stepwise conditional analyses around the putative regions, eight independent signals were ultimately identified for NBA, NS, and NM, and there were seven promising candidate genes related to these traits, including ARID1A, RXRG, NFATC4, ABTB2, GRAMD1B, NDRG1, and APC. Our findings contribute to the understanding of the significant genetic causes of piglets born alive and dead, and could have a positive effect on pig production efficiency and economic profits.
Pubmed ID: 31362194
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Software package for analysis of large-scale genetic data sets with hundreds of thousands of markers genotyped on thousands of samples. BEAGLE can * phase genotype data (i.e. infer haplotypes) for unrelated individuals, parent-offspring pairs, and parent-offspring trios. * infer sporadic missing genotype data. * impute ungenotyped markers that have been genotyped in a reference panel. * perform single marker and haplotypic association analysis. * detect genetic regions that are homozygous-by-descent in an individual or identical-by-descent in pairs of individuals. Beagle can also be used in conjunction with PRESTO, a program for fast and flexible permutation testing. PRESTO can compute empirical distributions of order statistics, analyze stratified data, and determine significance levels for one-stage and two-stage genetic association studies. BEAGLE is written in Java and runs on any computing platform with a Java version 1.6 interpreter (e.g. Windows, Unix, Linux, Solaris, Mac).
View all literature mentionsA Java based software tool designed to simplify and expedite the process of haplotype analysis by providing a common interface to several tasks relating to such analyses. Haploview currently allows users to examine block structures, generate haplotypes in these blocks, run association tests, and save the data in a number of formats. All functionalities are highly customizable. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software) * LD & haplotype block analysis * haplotype population frequency estimation * single SNP and haplotype association tests * permutation testing for association significance * implementation of Paul de Bakker's Tagger tag SNP selection algorithm. * automatic download of phased genotype data from HapMap * visualization and plotting of PLINK whole genome association results including advanced filtering options Haploview is fully compatible with data dumps from the HapMap project and the Perlegen Genotype Browser. It can analyze thousands of SNPs (tens of thousands in command line mode) in thousands of individuals. Note: Haploview is currently on a development and support freeze. The team is currently looking at a variety of options in order to provide support for the software. Haploview is an open source project hosted by SourceForge. The source can be downloaded at the SourceForge project site.
View all literature mentionsResource for reuse, sharing and meta-analysis of expression profiling data. Database and set of tools for meta analysis, reuse and sharing of genomics data. Targeted at analysis of gene expression profiles. Users can search, access and visualize coexpression and differential expression results.
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