Journal
ANIMAL GENETICS
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 98-103Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02206.x
Keywords
chicken; DigiTag2 assay; genetic analysis; Japanese native breeds; single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan
- NIAS Genebank
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22710191, 22580319] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Recently, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been used to identify genes or genomic regions responsible for economic traits, including genetic diseases in domestic animals, and to examine genetic diversity of populations. In this study, we genotyped 70 chicken autosomal SNPs using DigiTag2 assay to understand the genetic structure of the Japanese native chicken breeds Satsumadori and Ingie, and the relationship of these breeds with other established breeds, Rhode Island Red (RIR), commercial broiler and layer. Five breeds, each consisting of approximately 20 chickens, were subjected to the assay, revealing the following: Average expected heterozygosities of broiler, Satsumadori, RIR, layer and Ingie were 0.265, 0.254, 0.244, 0.179 and 0.176, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis using the concatenated 70 autosomal SNP genotypes distinguished all chickens and formed clusters of chickens belonging to the respective breeds. In addition, the 2-D scatter plot of the first two principal components was consistent with the phylogenic tree. Taken together with the pairwise Fst distances, broiler and RIR were closely positioned near each other, while Ingie was positioned far from the other breeds. Structure analysis revealed that the probable number of genetic clusters (K) was six and four with maximum likelihood and ?K values, respectively. The clustering with maximum likelihood revealed that, in addition to the clustering of the other five breeds, the Satsumadori was subdivided into two genetic clusters. The clustering with ?K value indicated that the broiler and Rhode Island Red were assigned to the same genetic cluster.
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