Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (11): 5502-5511.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2025.11.013

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Performance Validation and Application of Self-developed 13K and 40K Liquid-phase SNP Chips in Genomic Selection of Dairy Cattle

SONG Jian1,4(), HE Jinfeng1, ZHENG Weijie1, LIU Lin2, MA Zhu2, QIAN Changsong3, ZHOU Jinghang3, HAN Bo1,4, ZHANG Qi1, SUN Dongxiao1,4,*()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
    2. Beijing Dairy Cattle Center, Beijing 100192, China
    3. Shijiazhuang Molbreeding Biotech Co., Ltd., Shijiazhuang 050035, China
    4. Sanya Institute of China Agricultural University, Sanya 572025, China
  • Received:2025-02-14 Online:2025-11-23 Published:2025-11-27
  • Contact: SUN Dongxiao E-mail:sj1657033944@163.com;sundx@cau.edu.cn

Abstract:

This study aimed to evaluate the call rate, genotype concordance, imputation accuracy, and genomic prediction accuracy of the self-developed 13K and 40K liquid-phase SNP chips for dairy cattle. Genotyping was performed on 203 individuals in the validation population using the 13K, 40K, and existing commercial 126K and 150K SNP chips. Call rates and genotype concordances were then compared. Beagle software was used to impute the genotypic data of the 4 chips to a 50K density level based on the Chinese Holstein genomic selection reference population. The GBLUP method was employed to assess the genomic prediction accuracy for 9 traits in the validation population. Imputation accuracy and genomic prediction accuracy were then compared among the 4 chips. In the validation population, the call rates of the 13K and 40K chips were 97.70% and 97.20%, respectively, while those of the 126K and 150K chips were 99.30% and 98.27%. The 13K and 40K chips shared 11 331 and 11 125 SNPs and 42 504 and 40 881 SNPs with the 126K and 150K chips, respectively, with genotype concordance rates of 96.23%, 96.50%, 97.18%, and 97.43%. The 13K chip (MAF>0.01) achieved an accuracy of 95.90%, slightly lower than that of high-density commercial chips but higher than the international low-density Illumina 7K (94.30%) chips. Meanwhile, The imputation accuracy of the 40K chip (MAF>0.01) reached 99.07%, comparable to the 126K (99.23%) and 150K chips (99.05%).The genomic prediction accuracies for 9 traits—milk yield, fat percentage, protein percentage, fat yield, protein yield, udder system score, final score, somatic cell score, and feet and legs score—using the 13K, 40K, 126K, and 150K chips ranged from 0.619 0 to 0.735 2, 0.642 0 to 0.758 7, 0.620 8 to 0.742 8, and 0.633 4 to 0.751 4, respectively, with no significant differences observed. The findings indicate that the self-developed 13K and 40K liquid-phase SNP chips demonstrate robust performance and are suitable for early genetic evaluation and elite selection in Holstein dairy cattle.

Key words: liquid-phase SNP chip, dairy cattle, call rate, genotype imputation, genomic prediction accuracy

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