A cattle graph genome incorporating global breed diversity.
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Authors
Wragg, D
Paxton, E
Ezeasor, C
Agusi, ER
Amanyire, W
Muhanguzi, D
Marshall, K
Chaudhry, U
Wiener, P
Toye, P
Morrison, LJ
Connelley, T
Publication Date
2022-02-17Journal Title
Nat Commun
ISSN
2041-1723
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
13
Issue
1
Number
910
Pages
910
Type
Article
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VoR
Physical Medium
Electronic
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Talenti, A., Powell, J., Hemmink, J., Cook, E., Wragg, D., Jayaraman, S., Paxton, E., et al. (2022). A cattle graph genome incorporating global breed diversity.. Nat Commun, 13 (1. 910), 910. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28605-0
Abstract
Despite only 8% of cattle being found in Europe, European breeds dominate current genetic resources. This adversely impacts cattle research in other important global cattle breeds, especially those from Africa for which genomic resources are particularly limited, despite their disproportionate importance to the continent's economies. To mitigate this issue, we have generated assemblies of African breeds, which have been integrated with genomic data for 294 diverse cattle into a graph genome that incorporates global cattle diversity. We illustrate how this more representative reference assembly contains an extra 116.1 Mb (4.2%) of sequence absent from the current Hereford sequence and consequently inaccessible to current studies. We further demonstrate how using this graph genome increases read mapping rates, reduces allelic biases and improves the agreement of structural variant calling with independent optical mapping data. Consequently, we present an improved, more representative, reference assembly that will improve global cattle research.
Keywords
Africa, Alleles, Animals, Cattle, Chromosome Mapping, Europe, Genetic Variation, Genome, Genomics, Male
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28605-0
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/336117
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