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Journal Article
New loci and neuronal pathways for resilience to heat stress in cattle
2021
Overview
While understanding the genetic basis of heat tolerance is crucial in the context of global warming’s effect on humans, livestock, and wildlife, the specific genetic variants and biological features that confer thermotolerance in animals are still not well characterized. We used dairy cows as a model to study heat tolerance because they are lactating, and therefore often prone to thermal stress. The data comprised almost 0.5 million milk records (milk, fat, and proteins) of 29,107 Australian Holsteins, each having around 15 million imputed sequence variants. Dairy animals often reduce their milk production when temperature and humidity rise; thus, the phenotypes used to measure an individual’s heat tolerance were defined as the rate of milk production decline (slope traits) with a rising temperature–humidity index. With these slope traits, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using different approaches, including conditional analyses, to correct for the relationship between heat tolerance and level of milk production. The results revealed multiple novel loci for heat tolerance, including 61 potential functional variants at sites highly conserved across 100 vertebrate species. Moreover, it was interesting that specific candidate variants and genes are related to the neuronal system (
ITPR1, ITPR2,
and
GRIA4
) and neuroactive ligand–receptor interaction functions for heat tolerance (
NPFFR2, CALCR,
and
GHR
), providing a novel insight that can help to develop genetic and management approaches to combat heat stress.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ Adaptation, Physiological - genetics
/ Animals
/ Cattle
/ Chromosome Mapping - veterinary
/ Genome-wide association studies
/ Genome-Wide Association Study
/ Genomes
/ Heat
/ Heat-Shock Response - genetics
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humidity
/ Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
/ Science
/ Wildlife
