Journal
ANIMAL GENETICS
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 785-789Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02330.x
Keywords
BTA14; cattle; DNA; fat; quantitative trait locus; subcutaneous; XKR4
Funding
- Meat and Livestock Australia P/L.
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Variation in the XK, Kell blood group complex subunitrelated family, member 4 (XKR4) gene on BTA14 was associated with rump fat thickness in a recent genome-wide association study. This region is also of interest because it is known to show evidence of a signature of population genetic selection. In this study, additional variation in this gene was genotyped in a sample of a total of 1283 animals of the Belmont Red (BEL) and Santa Gertrudis (SGT) breeds. The SNP rs41724387 was significantly (P < 0.001) associated with rump fat thickness and explained 5.9% of the genetic variance for the trait in this sample. Using the 4466 genotypes for the SNP rs42646708 from several data sets to estimate effects in seven breeds, this relatively large quantitative trait locus effect appears to be a result of the variation in indicine and taurineindicine composite cattle. However, the only DNA variant found in Brahman cattle that altered the predicted amino acid sequence of XKR4 was not associated with rump fat thickness. This suggests that causative mutations lie outside the coding sequence of this gene.
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