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Genes (Basel)
January 2025
Department of Animal, Veterinary and Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
Background: Lamb health is crucial for producers; however, the percentage of lambs that die before weaning is still 15-20%. One factor that can contribute to lamb deaths is congenital diseases. A novel semi-lethal disease has been identified in newborn Polypay lambs and termed dozer lamb syndrome.
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December 2024
Department of Genetics, Development & Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Background: Runs of homozygosity (ROHs) and heterozygosity (ROHets) serve for the identification of genomic regions as candidates of selection, local adaptation, and population history.
Methods: The present study aimed to comprehensively explore the ROH and ROHet patterns and hotspots in Greek native dairy goats, Eghoria and Skopelos, genotyped with the Illumina Goat SNP50 BeadChip. SNP and functional enrichment analyses were conducted to further characterize hotspots and the candidate genes located within these genomic regions.
J Endocr Soc
January 2025
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem 91240, Israel.
Context: Despite a growing number of studies, the genetic etiology in many cases of ovarian dysgenesis is incompletely understood.
Objectives: This work aimed to study the genetic etiology causing absence of spontaneous pubertal development, hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, and primary amenorrhea in 2 sisters.
Methods: Whole-exome sequencing was performed on DNA extracted from peripheral lymphocytes of 2 Palestinian sisters born to consanguineous parents.
Hematol Rep
January 2025
Laboratory of Immunobiology and Immunogenetics, Post Graduation Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology (PPGBM), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre 91501-970, Brazil.
A quarter of a century ago, sickle cell disease (SCD) was mainly viewed as a typical genetic disease inherited as a classical Mendelian trait. Therefore, the main focus concerning SCD was on diagnosis, meaning, genotyping, and identification of homozygous and heterozygous individuals carrying the relevant HbS mutant allele. Nowadays, it is well established that sickle cell disease is indeed the result of homozygosis for the HbS variant, although this single feature is not capable of explaining the highly diverse clinical presentation of SCD.
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January 2025
Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding on Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, 730050, China.
Background: Prolonged natural selection and artificial breeding have contributed to increased uniformity within the Tibetan sheep population, resulting in a reduction in genetic diversity and the establishment of selective signatures in the genome. This process has led to a loss of heterozygosity in specific genomic regions and the formation of Runs of Homozygosity (ROH). Current research on ROH predominantly focuses on inbreeding and the signals of selection; however, there is a paucity of investigation into the genetic load and selective pressures associated with ROH, both within these regions and beyond.
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