title: Genome-wide copy number variation in Hanwoo, Black Angus, and Holstein cattle.
abstract: Hanwoo, Korean native cattle, is indigenous to the Korean peninsula. They have been used mainly as draft animals for about 5,000 years; however, in the last 30 years, their main role has been changed to meat production by selective breeding which has led to substantial increases in their productivity. Massively parallel sequencing technology has recently made possible the systematic identification of structural variations in cattle genomes. In particular, copy number variation (CNV) has been recognized as an important genetic variation complementary to single-nucleotide polymorphisms that can be used to account for variations of economically important traits in cattle. Here we report genome-wide copy number variation regions (CNVRs) in Hanwoo cattle obtained by comparing the whole genome sequence of Hanwoo with Black Angus and Holstein sequence datasets. We identified 1,173 and 963 putative CNVRs representing 16.7 and 7.8 Mbp from comparisons between Black Angus and Hanwoo and between Holstein and Hanwoo, respectively. The potential functional roles of the CNVRs were assessed by Gene Ontology enrichment analysis. The results showed that response to stimulus, immune system process, and cellular component organization were highly enriched in the genic-CNVRs that overlapped with annotated cattle genes. Of the 11 CNVRs that were selected for validation by quantitative real-time PCR, 9 exhibited the expected copy number differences. The results reported in this study show that genome-wide CNVs were detected successfully using massively parallel sequencing technology. The CNVs may be a valuable resource for further studies to correlate CNVs and economically important traits in cattle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. jwchoi@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: Jung-Woo
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Kyung-Tai
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stothard
authors.forename: Hyeon-Seung
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: Sungmin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Seunghwan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sung-Yeoun
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Stephen S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Tae-Hun
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D002417:Cattle / Q000235:genetics*; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D056915:DNA Copy Number Variations; D005828:Genetics, Population; D016678:Genome; D008297:Male; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D010641:Phenotype; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D056910:Republic of Korea; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
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