Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (7): 2913-2926.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.07.012

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The Genetic Structure Analysis and the Comparative Analysis of Selection Signals in 'Tezanghan' Sheep

Ting WANG(), Yuanqing ZHANG, Yibo YAN, Mingjun SHANGGUAN, Hongyu GUO, Zhiwu WANG*()   

  1. College of Animal Science, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan 030031, China
  • Received:2024-01-02 Online:2024-07-23 Published:2024-07-24
  • Contact: Zhiwu WANG E-mail:867478186@qq.com;782946088@qq.com

Abstract:

The aim of this study was to understand the genetic structure and the genetic source of the dominant performance of 'Tezanghan' sheep, to provide the basis for the breeding plan and cross utilization, and to help the formation of the specific performance in different families. In this study, sheep SNP 50K v3 chip was used to detect the single nucleotide polymorphism of 50 'Tezanghan' sheep (18 rams, 32 ewes), 24 Texel sheep (12 rams, 12 ewes) and 48 Euler Tibetan sheep (20 rams, 28 ewes).Plink, GCTA and MegaX softwares were used to analyze the genetic structure of 'Tezanghan' sheep; Tajima'D method was used to analyze the intragroup genome selection signals of 'Tezanghan' sheep, Texel sheep and Euler Tibetan sheep; The selection signals of 'Tezanghan' sheep were intersected with those of Texel sheep and Ola sheep (Tibetan sheep) respectively for GO and KEGG functional enrichment analysis which was aimed to find out the parental origin and related genes that may affect the dominant performance of 'Tezanghan' sheep. The results showed that the average polymorphism information content (PIC), the average expected heterozygosity (He), the average observed heterozygosity (Ho), the average effective allele number (Ne) and the average minimum allele frequency (MAF) of 'Tezanghan' sheep were 0.26±0.12, 0.36±0.14, 0.37±0.16, 1.59±0.07 and 0.25±0.15, respectively. The length of ROHs mainly distributed in 1-5 Mb, accounting for 50.4%, the length of 20 Mb+ ROH accounted for 9.52%, and the median FROH was 0.085. The D values of genetic distance ranged from 0.152 7 to 0.349 1, with an average genetic distance of 0.279 6. Five families were divided by NJ cluster analysis, and the distribution of individuals within the families was uneven. The localized genes according to intersected signals between 'Tezanghan' sheep and Euler Tibetan sheep were related to immunity, including primary immune deficiency, hematopoietic cell line and T cell receptor signaling pathway. The localized genes according to intersected signals between 'Tezanghan' sheep and Texel sheep were related to biological metabolism. In summary, 'Tezanghan' sheep had a certain degree of inbreeding, which indicated the needs of reinforced management; Euler Tibetan sheep had more influence on the immune function of 'Tezanghan' sheep, and Texel sheep more affected the growth and meat quality traits of 'Tezanghan' sheep.

Key words: population genetic structure, selective signals analysis, Euler Tibetan sheep

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