PLAG1 and NCAPG‐LCORL in livestock

A Takasuga - Animal Science Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A recent progress on stature genetics has revealed simple genetic architecture in livestock
animals in contrast to that in humans. PLAG1 and/or NCAPG‐LCORL, both of which are …

An interpretive review of selective sweep studies in Bos taurus cattle populations: identification of unique and shared selection signals across breeds

B Gutiérrez-Gil, JJ Arranz, P Wiener - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This review compiles the results of 21 genomic studies of European Bos taurus breeds and
thus provides a general picture of the selection signatures in taurine cattle identified by …

Genome-wide analysis reveals selection for important traits in domestic horse breeds

JL Petersen, JR Mickelson, AK Rendahl… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Intense selective pressures applied over short evolutionary time have resulted in
homogeneity within, but substantial variation among, horse breeds. Utilizing this population …

Large-effect pleiotropic or closely linked QTL segregate within and across ten US cattle breeds

M Saatchi, RD Schnabel, JF Taylor, DJ Garrick - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background The availability of high-density SNP assays including the BovineSNP50 (50 K)
enables the identification of novel quantitative trait loci (QTL) and improvement of the …

NCAPG promotes the proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma through PI3K/AKT signaling

C Gong, J Ai, Y Fan, J Gao, W Liu, Q Feng… - OncoTargets and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Studies show that high expression of non-SMC condensin I complex subunit G
(NCAPG) is associated with many tumors. In this study, we explore the mechanism by which …

Genome-wide association study of body weight in Australian Merino sheep reveals an orthologous region on OAR6 to human and bovine genomic regions affecting …

HA Al-Mamun, P Kwan, SA Clark, MH Ferdosi… - Genetics Selection …, 2015 - Springer
Background Body weight (BW) is an important trait for meat production in sheep. Although
over the past few years, numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been detected for …

Genetic architecture of quantitative traits in beef cattle revealed by genome wide association studies of imputed whole genome sequence variants: I: feed efficiency …

F Zhang, Y Wang, R Mukiibi, L Chen, M Vinsky… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Genome wide association studies (GWAS) on residual feed intake (RFI) and its
component traits including daily dry matter intake (DMI), average daily gain (ADG), and …

Four loci explain 83% of size variation in the horse

S Makvandi-Nejad, GE Hoffman, JJ Allen, E Chu, E Gu… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Horse body size varies greatly due to intense selection within each breed. American
Miniatures are less than one meter tall at the withers while Shires and Percherons can …

A Comprehensive Bioinformatics Analysis of UBE2C in Cancers

H Dastsooz, M Cereda, D Donna, S Oliviero - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitination is one of the main post-translational modification of proteins. It plays key roles
in a broad range of cellular functions, including protein degradation, protein interactions …

Selection signatures in worldwide sheep populations

MI Fariello, B Servin, G Tosser-Klopp, R Rupp… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The diversity of populations in domestic species offers great opportunities to study genome
response to selection. The recently published Sheep HapMap dataset is a great example of …