A genome-wide investigation of insidious uveitis in Appaloosa horses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Equine recurrent uveitis (ERU), an inflammatory eye disease, is the leading cause of blindness among horses. Insidious uveitis, a form of ERU, is especially pervasive within the Appaloosa breed and is highly heritable (h² = 0.68-1.0). To date only one risk locus, leopard complex (LP), has been identified, and it explained 0.16-0.33 of the heritability estimate, suggesting that insidious uveitis is a complex genetic disease within the Appaloosa horse breed with multiple unknown predisposing loci.

Results

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) using relatedness, LP genotype, sex, and age as covariates was performed on a sample of 96 Appaloosas (36 cases and 60 controls) and identified a 9.7 Kb region of association on ECA X (chrX:14528106-14537812) as sig

SUBMITTER: Kingsley NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12513139 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature