Phenotypes

In a remarkable indication of the power of whole-genome sequence analysis, Daetwyler et al. (2014) identified a causal mutation for this disorder in Holstein Friesian cattle as a missense mutation (g.32475732G>A [UMD3.1 reference sequence]; p.Gly960Arg, omia.variant:223) in the COL2A1 gene (which encodes the alpha-1 chain of type II collagen), by comparing the sequence of only two affected calves with sequence from bulls in the 1000-bull-ge...

Floriot et al. (2021) "A total of 106 affected animals were reported to the French National Observatory for Bovine Abnormalities (ONAB, https://www.onab.fr/, Grohs et al. 2016). The first case reported to the ONAB was a cow born in 2008. At birth, the affected animals, which are otherwise healthy, present a dilution of the pigmented, normally red, areas of the coat .... To search for the causative genetic factors responsible for this genetic co...

Agerholm et al. (2017): "whole genome sequencing of a case-parent trio revealed two de novo variants perfectly associated with the disease: an intronic SNP in the DMBT1 gene and a single non-synonymous variant in the FGFR2 gene. This FGFR2 missense variant (c.927G>T) affects a gene encoding a member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor family, where amino acid sequence is highly conserved between members and across species. It is predic...

Häfliger et al. (2021) investigated “the two Braunvieh populations reared in Switzerland, the dairy Brown Swiss (BS) and the dual-purpose Original Braunvieh (OB). We performed a genome-wide analysis of array data of trios (sire, dam, and offspring) from the routine genomic selection to identify candidate regions showing missing homozygosity and phenotypic associations with five fertility, ten birth, and nine growth-related traits. In addition,...

Al-Khudhair et al. (2024) report a variant in the CACNA1S gene (rs3423414874) as likely causal variant for this condition.