Zhu Xiaoning, Li Chong, Luo Chenglong, Bai Zhonghao, Shu Dingming, Chen Peng, Ren Jiangli, Song Ran, Fang Lingzhao, Qu Hao, Wang Yuzhe, Hu Xiaoxiang
State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
State Key Laboratory of Swine and Poultry Breeding Industry, Guangzhou, China.
Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 1;16(1):5841. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60834-x.
Complex traits exhibit a highly polygenic architecture that complicates gene mapping and molecular characterization. As a model organism for birds, chickens possess high-quality reference panels, functional annotations, and molecular quantitative trait locus maps. However, the genetic mechanisms underlying growth traits have not been systematically analyzed. Here, we develop a 16-generation advanced intercross line of chickens to enhance informative recombination and identify 154 single-gene quantitative trait loci. We use multiple co-localization methods to establish a network landscape of tissue-specific regulatory mutations and functional gene relationships. We leverage gene-clustering and restoration quantitative trait loci within the omnigenic model framework to elucidate the genetic regulation system of growth traits. Cross-species comparisons show the conserved functions of growth-related genes and divergent features of regulatory mechanisms in mammals and birds.
复杂性状呈现出高度多基因的结构,这使得基因定位和分子特征分析变得复杂。作为鸟类的模式生物,鸡拥有高质量的参考面板、功能注释和分子数量性状基因座图谱。然而,生长性状背后的遗传机制尚未得到系统分析。在这里,我们培育了一个16代的鸡高级杂交系,以增强信息性重组,并鉴定出154个单基因数量性状基因座。我们使用多种共定位方法来建立组织特异性调控突变和功能基因关系的网络景观。我们在泛基因模型框架内利用基因聚类和恢复数量性状基因座来阐明生长性状的遗传调控系统。跨物种比较显示了生长相关基因的保守功能以及哺乳动物和鸟类调控机制的不同特征。
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