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Genetic Association between Farrowing Rates and Swine Leukocyte Antigen Alleles or Haplotypes in Microminipigs

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CELLS
卷 11, 期 19, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells11193138

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swine leukocyte antigen; reproductive performance; farrowing rate; haplotype; Microminipig

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Our study demonstrates that the similarity of SLA genes between mating partners has a significant impact on farrowing rates in a miniature pig population. Mating partners who completely share SLA genes have the lowest farrowing rates, and mating pairs with smaller genetic distances between SLA genes also have lower farrowing rates. Thus, SLA genes or haplotypes could be useful genetic markers for breeding programs and studies on reproductive traits.
We have previously reported specific swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) haplotype associations with significant effects on several reproduction performance traits in a highly inbred miniature pig population of Microminipigs (MMPs). In this study, to clarify the effects on farrowing rates of SLA similarity between mating partners in the MMP population, we compared the farrowing rates as a measure of reproductive success after 1063-cumulative matings among the following three groups of mating partners: (1) completely sharing SLA class I or class II haplotypes or alleles between partners (CS), (2) only one sharing the haplotypes or alleles (OS), and (3) non-sharing the haplotypes or alleles (NS). Average farrowing rates in CS groups consisting of completely sharing SLA class II haplotypes or DRBI and DQB1 alleles were lowest in the three groups. Moreover, lower farrowing rates were indicated in mating pairs with smaller amino acid pairwise genetic distances of SLA-1, SLA-3, DRB1 and DQB1 alleles between the pairs. These results suggested that the dissimilarity of SLA class I and class II alleles between mating partners markedly improved reproductive performance; therefore, SLA alleles or haplotypes are potentially useful genetic markers for the selection of mating pairs in breeding programs and epistatic studies of reproductive traits of MMPs.

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