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Genome-wide association analysis and accuracy of genome-enabled breeding value predictions for resistance to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in a commercial rainbow trout breeding population.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) is a disease of salmonid fish that is caused by the IHN virus (IHNV). Under intensive aquaculture conditions, IHNV can cause significant mortality and economic losses. Currently, there is no proven and cost-effective method for IHNV control. Clear Springs Foods, Inc. has been applying selective breeding to improve genetic resistance to IHNV in their rainbow trout breeding program. The goals of this study were to elucidate the genetic architecture of IHNV resistance in this commercial population by performing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with multiple regression single-step methods and to assess if genomic selection can improve the accuracy of genetic merit predictions over conventional pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction (PBLUP) using cross-validation analysis. RESULTS:Ten moderate-effect quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with resistance to IHNV that jointly explained up to 42% of the additive genetic variance were detected in our GWAS. Only three of the 10 QTL were detected by both single-step Bayesian multiple regression (ssBMR) and weighted single-step GBLUP (wssGBLUP) methods. The accuracy of breeding value predictions with wssGBLUP (0.33-0.39) was substantially better than with PBLUP (0.13-0.24). CONCLUSIONS:Our comprehensive genome-wide scan for QTL revealed that genetic resistance to IHNV is controlled by the oligogenic inheritance of up to 10 moderate-effect QTL and many small-effect loci in this commercial rainbow trout breeding population. Taken together, our results suggest that whole genome-enabled selection models will be more effective than the conventional pedigree-based method for breeding value estimation or the marker-assisted selection approach for improving the genetic resistance of rainbow trout to IHNV in this population.

SUBMITTER: Vallejo RL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712688 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide association analysis and accuracy of genome-enabled breeding value predictions for resistance to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in a commercial rainbow trout breeding population.

Vallejo Roger L RL Cheng Hao H Fragomeni Breno O BO Shewbridge Kristy L KL Gao Guangtu G MacMillan John R JR Towner Richard R Palti Yniv Y

Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE 20190828 1

<h4>Background</h4>Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN) is a disease of salmonid fish that is caused by the IHN virus (IHNV). Under intensive aquaculture conditions, IHNV can cause significant mortality and economic losses. Currently, there is no proven and cost-effective method for IHNV control. Clear Springs Foods, Inc. has been applying selective breeding to improve genetic resistance to IHNV in their rainbow trout breeding program. The goals of this study were to elucidate the genetic arc ...[more]

PMID: 31455244

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Project description:The Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosic Virus (IHNV) DNA vaccine is based on the viral glycoprotein gene (G gene) and induces a non-specific anti-viral immune response and long-term specific immunity against IHNV in salmonid fishes. This study characterized gene expression responses associated with the early anti-viral response. Homozygous rainbow trout were injected intra-muscularly (I.M.) with vector DNA or the IHNV DNA vaccine. Gene expression at the I.M. site was evaluated using a 16,000 feature salmon cDNA microarray. Eighty different transcripts were significantly modulated in the vector DNA group while 910 transcripts were modulated in the IHNV DNA vaccinated group relative to control group. Quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR was used to examine expression of selected genes at the I.M. site and in other secondary tissues. In the localized response (I.M. site), the magnitudes of gene expression changes were higher in the vaccinate group relative to the vector DNA group for the majority of genes analyzed. At secondary systemic sites (e.g. gill, kidney and spleen) evaluated with RT-PCR of specific genes, the main difference was the up-regulation of the type I IFN-related genes in only the IHNV DNA vaccinated group. Keywords: disease vaccine response Gene expression at the site of I.M injection was evaluated 7 days post-injection in clonal rainbow trout. Gene expression was compared across three treatments, with replicate clonal rainbow trout individuals (Hot Creek strain) within each treatment. Treatments included injection with 1X PBS (control group), plasmid vector only (without IHNV G gene; hereafter referred to as vector group), and the pIHNV vaccine (vaccine group). Three clonal individuals from the control, three individuals from the vector group, and four individuals from the vaccine group were labeled with Cy3 and used for individual hybridizations to ten slides, comparing hybridization of each individual to a major reference RNA pool. The major reference pool consisted of three unhandled clonal rainbow trout and constituted a pool of RNA from the anterior kidney, spleen, liver and muscle and was labelled with Cy5. Total RNA was extracted from samples, amplified, and hybridized to 16,000 feature Atlantic salmon cDNA arrays developed by the Genomic Research for Atlantic Salmon project. Differential expression was compared among control, vector, and vaccine groups.

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Genome-wide association analysis and accuracy of genome-enabled breeding value predictions for resistance to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in a commercial rainbow trout breeding population.

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Genome-wide association analysis and accuracy of genome-enabled breeding value predictions for resistance to infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus in a commercial rainbow trout breeding population.

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