Abnormal segregation of prion protein octapeptide-repeat alleles in cattle

• Authors: K. Walawski , U. Czarnik , R. Wojciechowski , C.S. Pareek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The study was conducted on full-families of Black-and-White cattle obtained as 25 AI sire families and 355 cows, as well as their progenies, mostly heifers at the age of 1-3 months. The sire group was composed by the casual qualification of 10 PRNP 6/6 and 15 PRNP 6/5 individuals on the basis of accessible young progenies. The randomly selected group of cows is characterised by a very high frequency of PRNP 6/6 (74.9%), followed by lower frequency of PRNP 6/5 (24.5%) and a very low frequency of PRNP 5/5 genotype (0.6%). The progenies represent all expected genotypes, such as: PRNP 6/6 (60.5%), PRNP 6/5 (35.8%) and PRNP 5/5 (3.7%), respectively. Taking into consideration the genotypes of parents and progenies, the segregation of PRNP 6 and PRNP 5 alleles was analysed. Results of the non-informative mating variant of male PRNP 6/6 ? female PRNP 6/6 (n = 87) are affected by the PRNP 6/6 progeny genotype in all cases. Subsequently, the results of mating variants male PRNP 6/6 ? female PRNP 6/5 (n = 29) and male PRNP 6/5 female PRNP 6/6 (n = 179) showed statistically non-significant differences in both above-mentioned alternations. The progeny group related from male PRNP 6/5 ? female PRNP 6/5 parental mating obtained fully informative and most valuable results based on the presented research concept. In the common group of 58 calves, the genotype PRNP 6/6 is represented by 26 individuals (44.8 %), PRNP 6/5 ? by 19 individuals (32.8 %) and PRNP 5/5 ? by 13 individuals (22.4 %). Therefore, the theoretical genotype rate (25% : 50% : 25%) is drastically deformed and the differentiation between the observed and expected numbers of animals is statistically highly significant (chi2= 12.72; 2 df.). These differences are affected by two times higher PRNP 6/6 homozygous (chi2 = 9.12; 1 df.) and responsively by the low number of PRNP 6/5 heterozygous animals (chi2 = 3.45; 1 df.). Further investigations are carried out to explain the genetic determination of abnormal PRNP octa-peptide repeat allele segregation, which suggests possible lethal cis-trans linkage effects.

Keywords

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ABNORMAL ALLELE; CATTLE; OCTAPEPTIDE REPEAT POLYMORPHISM; PRION PROTEIN; SEGREGATION

Discipline

• GENETICS: GENETICS

• Publisher: Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Journal of Applied Genetics
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 375-378

Contributors

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K. Walawski

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U. Czarnik

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R. Wojciechowski

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C.S. Pareek

• Document Type: SHORT COMMUNICA
• Publication order reference: K. Walawski, Department of Animal Genetics, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, ul. M. Oczapowskiego 5, 10-824 Olsztyn, Poland