In it for the long run: perspectives on exploiting long-read sequencing in livestock for population scale studies of structural variants

TV Nguyen, CJ Vander Jagt, J Wang… - Genetics Selection …, 2023 - Springer
Studies have demonstrated that structural variants (SV) play a substantial role in the
evolution of species and have an impact on Mendelian traits in the genome. However, unlike …

Structural variant-based pangenome construction has low sensitivity to variability of haplotype-resolved bovine assemblies

AS Leonard, D Crysnanto, ZH Fang, MP Heaton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advantages of pangenomes over linear reference assemblies for genome research have
recently been established. However, potential effects of sequence platform and assembly …

Molecular cytogenetics in domestic bovids: A review

A Iannuzzi, L Iannuzzi, P Parma - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Molecular cytogenetics, and particularly the use of fluorescence in situ
hybridization (FISH), has allowed deeper investigation of the chromosomes of domestic …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association analyses reveal copy number variant regions associated with reproduction and disease traits in Canadian Holstein cattle

HR de Oliveira, TCS Chud, GA Oliveira Jr… - Journal of dairy …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of copy number variants (CNV) on 13 reproduction
and 12 disease traits in Holstein cattle. Intensity signal files containing log R ratio and B …

Genome-wide detection of copy number variation in American mink using whole-genome sequencing

P Davoudi, DN Do, B Rathgeber, SM Colombo… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) represent a major source of genetic
diversity and contribute to the phenotypic variation of economically important traits in …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study between copy number variants and hoof health traits in Holstein dairy cattle

AM Butty, TCS Chud, DF Cardoso, LSF Lopes… - Journal of dairy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies based on SNP have been completed for multiple traits in
dairy cattle; however, copy number variants (CNV) could add genomic information that has …

A large structural variant collection in Holstein cattle and associated database for variant discovery, characterization, and application

JR Grant, EK Herman, LD Barlow, F Miglior… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background Structural variants (SVs) such as deletions, duplications, and insertions
are known to contribute to phenotypic variation but remain challenging to identify and …

Investigating the effect of imputed structural variants from whole-genome sequence on genome-wide association and genomic prediction in dairy cattle

L Chen, JE Pryce, BJ Hayes, HD Daetwyler - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Structural variants are large changes to the DNA sequences that differ
from individual to individual. We discovered and quality-controlled a set of 24,908 structural …

Identification of copy number variations in the genome of Dairy Gir cattle

LG Braga, TCS Chud, RN Watanabe, RP Savegnago… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Studying structural variants that can control complex traits is relevant for dairy cattle
production, especially for animals that are tolerant to breeding conditions in the tropics, such …

Discovering copy number variation in dual-purpose Xinjiang brown cattle

J Zhou, L Liu, E Reynolds, X Huang, D Garrick… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Copy number variants (CNVs), which are a class of structural variant, can be important in
relating genomic variation to phenotype. The primary aims of this study were to discover the …