›› 2013, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (10): 173-178.

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Genomic Characteristics of Copy Number Variations in Sunite Sheep

LIU Jia-sen1,2, ZHANG Li1, LI Yun-hua2, ZHAO Fu-ping1, WEI Cai-hong1, DU Li-xin1   

  1. 1. Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China;
    2. Institute of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural & Animal Husbandry Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot 010031, China
  • Received:2013-03-18 Online:2013-10-20 Published:2013-12-19

Abstract: In this study, 71 Sunite sheep were genotyped using Illumina OvineSNP50 BeadChip array, a total of 134 CNV regions (CNVR) across the genome were identified, which covered 25.95 Mb of the sheep genome.CNVR size on autosomes range from 29.48 kb to 1.30 Mb. Functional indicated that the most genes overrepresented in environmental responses, which involved in sensory perception of smell, sensory perception of chemical stimulus, sensory perception, cognition. To confirm these findings, quantitative PCR (qPCR) was performed for 5 CNVR and 3 of them were successfully validated. Our findings would be of help to understand the sheep genome and provide preliminary foundation for investigating the association between important economic traits and CNV.

Key words: Sunite sheep; genome; copy number variation; single nucleotide polymorphism

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