Journal
JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE
Volume 106, Issue 2, Pages 1130-1141Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2022-22368
Keywords
recombination; genetic shuffling; genetic diversity
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This study investigates the variation in recombination rates between sexes and individual animals using pedigree information and genotype data in a large cattle population. The results show higher recombination rates in males compared to females, but little variation in recombination distribution between the sexes. Heritability analysis indicates a low but significant genetic contribution to recombination rates in both males and females. Additionally, two loci associated with individual recombination counts in females were identified.
Meiotic recombination is an important evolutionary mechanism that breaks up linkages between loci and creates novel haplotypes for selection to act upon. Understanding the genetic control of variation in recombination rates is therefore of great interest in both natural and domestic breeding populations. In this study, we used pedigree information and medium-density (similar to 50K) genotyped data in a large cattle (Bos taurus) breeding population in Norway (Norwegian Red cattle) to investigate recombination rate variation between sexes and individual animals. Sex-specific linkage mapping showed higher rates in males than in females (total genetic length of autosomes = 2,492.9 cM in males and 2,308.9 cM in females). However, distribution of recombination along the genome showed little variation between males and females compared with that in other species. The heritability of autosomal crossover count was low but significant in both sexes (h(2) = 0.04 and 0.09 in males and females, respectively). We identified 2 loci associated with variation in individual crossover counts in female, one close to the candidate gene CEP55 and one close to both MLH3 and NEK9. All 3 genes have been associated with recombination rates in other cattle breeds. Our study contributes to the understanding of how recombination rates are controlled and how they may vary between closely related breeds as well as between species.
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