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Article Dans Une Revue Genetics Selection Evolution Année : 2015

A comparison of methods for whole-genome QTL mapping using dense markers in four livestock species

Guillaume Salle
Sébastien Fritz

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With dense genotyping, many choices exist for methods to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL) in livestock populations. However, no across-species study has been conducted on the performance of different methods using real data. We compared three methods that correct for relatedness either implicitly or explicitly: linkage and linkage disequilibrium haplotype-based analysis (LDLA), efficient mixed-model association (EMMA) analysis, and Bayesian whole-genome regression (BayesC). We analyzed one chromosome in each of five datasets (dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs) using real genotypes based on dense single nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes. The P values corrected for multiple testing or Bayes factors greater than 150 were considered to be significant. To complete the real data study, we also simulated quantitative trait loci (QTL) for the same datasets based on the real genotypes. Several scenarios were chosen, with different QTL effects and linkage disequilibrium patterns. A pseudo-null statistical distribution was chosen to make the significance thresholds comparable across methods. For the real data, the three methods generally agreed within 1 or 2 cM for the locations of QTL regions and disagreed when no signals were significant (e.g. in pigs). For certain datasets, LDLA had more significant signals than EMMA or BayesC, but they were concentrated around the same peaks. Therefore, the three methods detected approximately the same number of QTL regions. For the simulated data, LDLA was slightly less powerful and accurate than either EMMA or BayesC but this depended strongly on how thresholds were set in the simulations. All three methods performed similarly for real and simulated data. No method was clearly superior across all datasets or for any particular dataset. For computational efficiency and ease of interpretation, EMMA is recommended, but using more than one method is suggested.

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Biologie animale
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hal-01190172 , version 1 (02-11-2015)

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Andres Legarra, Pascal Croiseau, Marie-Pierre Sanchez, Simon Teyssedre, Guillaume Salle, et al.. A comparison of methods for whole-genome QTL mapping using dense markers in four livestock species. Genetics Selection Evolution, 2015, 47 (1), pp.1-10. ⟨10.1186/s12711-015-0087-7⟩. ⟨hal-01190172⟩
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