Genome-wide Association Study for Bone Quality of Ducks During the Laying Period

Overview

Journal Poult Sci

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2024 Mar 6

PMID 38447311

Authors

Qinglan Yang

Hehe Liu

Yang Xi

Yinjuan Lu

Xu Han

Xinxin He

Jingjing Qi

Yuanchun Zhu

Hua He

Jiwen Wang

Jiwei Hu

Liang Li

Affiliations

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Abstract

The cage-rearing model of the modern poultry industry makes the bones of birds, especially egg-laying birds, more vulnerable to fracture, which poses serious damage to the health of birds. Research confirms that genetic material plays an important role in regulating bone growth, development, and remodeling. However, the genetic architecture underlying bone traits is not well understood. The objectives of this study are to identify valuable genes and genetic markers through a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for breeding to improve the duck bone quality. First, we quantified the tibia and femur quality traits of 260 laying ducks. Based on GWAS, a total of 75 SNP loci significantly associated with bone quality traits were identified, and 67 potential candidate genes were annotated. According to gene function analysis, genes P4HA2, WNT3A, and BST1 et al may influence bone quality by regulating bone cell activity, calcium and phosphate metabolism, or bone collagen maturation and cross-linking. Meanwhile, combined with the transcriptome results, we found that HOXB cluster genes are also important in bone growth and development. Therefore, our findings were helpful in further understanding the genetic architecture of the duck bone quality and provided a worthy theoretical basis and technological support to improve duck bone quality by breeding.

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