期刊
GENOMICS
卷 97, 期 3, 页码 158-165出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2010.11.005
关键词
aCGH; Comparative map; Copy number variation; Ovis aries; Ruminants; Sheep breeds
资金
- Italian MiPAAF SELMOL project
- University of Bologna
- ConsDABI
- Assessorato Agricoltura e Foreste of the Regione Siciliana - U.O.B. [108, 69]
We carried out a cross species cattle-sheep array comparative genome hybridization experiment to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in the sheep genome analysing ewes of Italian dairy or dual-purpose breeds (Bagnolese, Comisana, Laticauda, Massese, Sarda, and Valle del Belice) using a tiling oligonucleotide array with similar to 385,000 probes designed on the bovine genome. We identified 135 CNV regions (CNVRs; 24 reported in more than one animal) covering similar to 10.5 Mb of the virtual sheep genome referred to the bovine genome (0.398%) with a mean and a median equal to 77.6 and 55.9 kb, respectively. A comparative analysis between the identified sheep CNVRs and those reported in cattle and goat genomes indicated that overlaps between sheep and both other species CNVRs are highly significant (P<0.0001), suggesting that several chromosome regions might contain recurrent interspecies CNVRs. Many sheep CNVRs include genes with important biological functions. Further studies are needed to evaluate their functional relevance. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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