Solomon Antwi Boison

TL;DR: If the Illumina® BovineHD is considered as the target chip for genomic applications in the Nelore breed, cost-effectiveness can be improved by genotyping part of the animals with a chip containing around 15 K useful SNPs and imputing their high-density missing genotypes with FImpute.

TL;DR: The objective of the paper was to demonstrate how genomic data could be used to analyse linkage disequlibrium, LD decay and the effective population size, and prediction of genomic breeding values (GEBV) using small within-breed and genomic information from other breeds.

TL;DR: Investigation of strategies and factors affecting the accuracy of genotype imputation in Gyr (Bos indicus) dairy cattle found that a genotyping strategy that uses the HD-777K SNP chip as a reference panel and SGGP-20Ki as the lower-density SNP panel should be adopted as accuracy was high and similar to that of the 50K.

TL;DR: The molecular signatures of AGD infection in Atlantic salmon through a challenge model and genome-wide association analysis found QTL regions on chromosomes ssa04, ssa09, and ssa13 were detected to be linked with AGD resistance, suggesting thousands of genes have modified their expression following infection.

TL;DR: A heuristic process to identify misassembly signatures was developed, applied to the bovine reference genome assembly (UMDv3.1), and it was found that poorly performing markers in imputation mapped to putative misassembled regions, and that correction of marker positions based on LD was capable to recover imputation accuracy.