Abstract
The present work presents the results of a genome-wide association study of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) with productive traits in traditional horse breeds, obtained on the basis of data from SNP genotyping of animals, carried out with the reagent set Equine 80k HTS («Illumina Inc», USA). Horses of the following breeds and types were studied Kazakh types Zhabe (n = 631), Adai (n = 303) and Naiman (n = 158), Mugalzhar (n = 584), Kushum (n = 226) and Kostanay (n = 116) breeds. Information on phenotypic data of the horses was collected before sampling and the following parameters were measured: the height at the withers, oblique body length, chest circumference, cannon bone circumference, and body weight. The total number of SNPs selected by quality control was 60,987. The genome-wide association study was performed using a linear regression test with the adaptive Monte-Carlo permutation method of p-value correction for multiple comparisons in PLINK1.9 software. The analysis revealed 60 polymorphisms associated with genes involved in the regulation of connective tissue and bone system, nervous system, immune system regulation, and other processes. This work confirmed the relevance of using such an approach in genome-wide association studies to detect single SNPs associated with individual traits.
01 Introduction
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