Genomic architecture of carcass and pork traits and their association with immune capacity
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Author
Jové-Juncà, T.
González-Rodríguez, O.
Hernández-Banqué, C.
Reixach, J.
Publication date
2023-11-28ISSN
1751-7311
Abstract
Carcass and pork traits have traditionally been considered of prime importance in pig breeding programmes. However, the changing conditions in modern farming, coupled with antimicrobial resistance issues, are raising the importance of health and robustness-related traits. Here, we explore the genetic architecture of carcass and pork traits and their relationship with immunity phenotypes in a commercial Duroc pig population. A total of nine traits related to fatness, lean content and meat pH were measured at slaughter (∼190 d of age) in 378 pigs previously phenotyped (∼70 d of age) for 36 immunity-related traits, including plasma concentrations of immunoglobulins, acute-phase proteins, leukocytes subpopulations and phagocytosis. Our study showed medium to high heritabilities and strong genetic correlations between fatness, lean content and meat pH at 24 h postmortem. Genetic correlations were found between carcass and pork traits and white blood cells. pH showed strong positive genetic correlations with leukocytes and eosinophils, and strong negative genetic correlations with haemoglobin, haematocrit and cytotoxic T cell proportion. In addition, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) pointed out four significantly associated genomic regions for lean meat percentages in different muscles, ham fat, backfat thickness, and semimembranosus pH at 24 h. The functional annotation of genes located in these regions reported a total of 14 candidate genes, with BGN, DPP10, LEPR, LEPROT, PDE4B and SLC6A8 being the strongest candidates. After performing an expression GWAS for the expression of these genes in muscle, two signals were detected in cis for the BGN and SLC6A8 genes. Our results indicate a genetic relationship between carcass fatness, lean content and meat pH with a variety of immunity-related traits that should be considered to improve immunocompetence without impairing production traits.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
57 - Biological sciences in general
Pages
11
Publisher
Elsevier
Is part of
Animal
Citation
Jové-Juncà, Teodor, Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo, Olga González‐Rodríguez, M. Pascual, Carles Hernández-Banqué, Josep Peñuelas I Reixach, Raquel Quintanilla, and María Ballester. 2024. “Genomic Architecture of Carcass and Pork Traits and Their Association with Immune Capacity.” Animal 18 (1): 101043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.animal.2023.101043.
Grant agreement number
MINECO/Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los retos de la sociedad/AGL2016-75432-R/ES/DETERMINACION GENETICA DE LA CAPACIDAD INMUNOLOGICA EN PORCINO: IDENTIFICACION DE VARIANTES GENETICAS FUNCIONALES PARA LA IMPLEMENTACION DE SELECCION GENOMICA/
MICINN/Programa Estatal de generación del conocimiento y fortalecimiento científico y tecnológico del sistema I+D+I y Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los retos de la sociedad/PID2020-112677RB-C21/ES/FISIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DEL INMUNOMETABOLISMO EN PORCINO: BASES PARA LA SELECCION DE POBLACIONES MAS ROBUSTAS/
EC/H2020/817998/EU/The regulatory GENomE of SWine and CHicken: functional annotation during development/GENE-SWitCH
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Genètica i Millora Animal
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