Fine mapping quantitative trait loci affecting milk production traits on bovine chromosome 6 in a Chinese Holstein population
Fine mapping quantitative trait loci affecting milk production traits on bovine chromosome 6 in a Chinese Holstein population作者机构:College of Animal Science and Technology China Agricultural University State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture Beijing 100193
出 版 物:《Journal of Genetics and Genomics》 (遗传学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2009年第36卷第11期
页 面:653-660页
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基 金:supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (No. 2006CB102104)
主 题:fine mapping QTL Bos Taurus autosome 6 milk production traits
摘 要:To fine map the previously detected quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting milk production traits on bovine chromosome 6 (BTA6), 15 microsatellite markers situated within an interval of 14.3 cM spanning from BMS690 to BM4528 were selected and 918 daughters of 8 sires were genotyped. Two mapping approaches, haplotype sharing based LD mapping and single marker regression mapping, were used to analyze the data. Both approaches revealed a quantitative trait locus (QTL) with significant effects on milk yield, fat yield and protein yield located in the segment flanked by markers BMS483 and MNB209, which spans a genetic distance of 0.6 cM and a physical distance of 1.5 Mb. In addition, the single marker regression mapping also revealed a QTL affecting fat percentage and protein percentage at marker DIK2291. Our fine mapping work will facilitate the cloning of candidate genes underlying the QTLs for milk production traits.