Increased understanding of the genetics of quantitative traits - theory and applications

Date: 08 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Maki-Tanila (FIN)

Theatre

• How important are regulatory mutations for genetic variation in multifactorial traits? (Andersson, L.)
• Bioinformatic tools in analysing molecular genetic data for breeding and genetics (Janss, L.L.G.)
• Reassessing quantitative genetic theory in the light of modern molecular genetic ideas (Pollot, G.E.)
• Estimable genetic variance components under mixed additive mendelian and imprinted inheritance (Reinsch, N. and V. Guiard)
• Strategies for selective DNA pooling for multiple traits (Schwarzenbacher, H., P. Visscher, M. Dolezal, M. Soller and J. Sölkner)
• Testing candidate genes using a Bayes Factor (Varona, L.)
• Benefits from marker assisted selection under an infinitesimal model (Villanueva, B., R. Pong-Wong, J. Fernández and M.A. Toro)
• Gene expression profiling for meat quality in swine (Gorni, C., C. Garino, S. Iacuaniello, B. Castiglioni, G.L. Restelli, A. Stella, G. Pagnacco and P. Mariani)
• Haplotype structure of casein genes in Norwegian goats and effects on production traits (Hagesæther, N., B. Hayes, T. Ådnøy, G. Pellerud and S. Lien)
• Effect of IGF2 on growth characteristics of F2 Meishan X White crossbreds (Heuven, H.C.M. and H. Bovenhuis)
• Fishy taint in chicken eggs is associated with a substitution within a conserved motif of the FMO3 gene (Honkatukia, M.S., K. Reese, R. Preisinger, M. Tuiskula-Haavisto, S. Weigend, J. Roito, A. Mäki-Tanila and J. Vilkki)

Poster

• Mapping of quantitative trait loci for leg conformation traits in Danish Holstein (Buitenhuis, A.J., M.S. Lund, B. Thomsen and B. Guldbrandtsen)
• QTL analysis for eight milk production traits in the German Angeln dairy cattle population (Sanders, K., J. Bennewitz, N. Reinsch, E.-M. Prinzenberg and E. Kalm)
• Selection of the habitat in the rest phase of the Helix aspersa under laboratorial conditions (Perea, J., M. Herrera, A. García, A. Mayoral, M. Luque, E. Felix and C. Pérez)
• The association between CSN3 genotypes and milk production parameters in Czech Pied cattle (Kucerová, J., E. Nemcová, M. Stipková, O. Jandurová, A. Matejícek and J. Bouska)
• Genetic variability of MYF3 and MYF4 genes in Large White and Landrace breeds of pigs in the Czech Republic (Verner, J. and T. Urban)
• SNPs analysis in selected candidate genes in pigs using resequencing (Knoll, A., J. Verner and Z. Vykoukalová)
• Relationship between the myogenin gene (myf4) and litter size of large white sows (Humpolicek, P., T. Urban and J. Verner)
• Isolation of differentially expressed genes related with ham salting loss in Italian heavy pig (Russo, V., D. Bigi, P. Zambonelli and M. Colombo)
• Allelic frequencies of MC1r and ASIP genes in Iberian horses (L.J. Royo, I. Álvarez, I. Fernández, M. Valera, J. Jordana, A. Beja-Pereira, J.P. Gutiérrez, L.Payeras, E. Gómez, and F. Goyache)
• In silico inference of multi-locus genotypes from SSCP markers (Panzitta, F., P. Mariani, G.C. Gandini, P.J. Boettcher and A. Stella)
• The use of phenotypic information for refinement of haplotype reconstruction using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm (Boettcher, P.J. and A. Stella)
• A pipeline for automatic detection of SNPs in goat polymorphic sequences (Lazzari, B., J. Nardelli-Costa, F. Panzitta, A. Stella, A.R. Caetano and P. Mariani)
• QTL mapping for teat number in an Iberian by Meishan pig intercross (Rodríguez, M.C., A. Tomás, E. Alves, O. Ramírez, M. Arque, C. Barragán, L. Varona, L. Silió, G Muñoz, M. Amills and J.L. Noguera)
• Analysis of effects of genes differentially expressed during myogenesis on pork quality (Murani, E., M.F.W. Te Pas, K.C. Chang, R. Davoli, J.W.M. Merks, H. Henne, R. Wörner, H. Eping, S. Ponsuksili, K. Schellander, N. da Costa, D. Prins, B. Harlizius, E. Knol, M. Cagnazzo, S. Braglia and K. Wimmers)
• Leptin polymorphism and its association with milk production and plasma glucose in early lactating cows (Heravi Moussavi, A., M. Ahouei, M.R. Nassiry, E. Jorjany, M. Salary and A. Javadmanesh)
• Effects of the bovine DGAT1 (K232A) polymorphism in Swedish dairy cattle (Näslund, J., F. Fikse, G. Pielberg and A. Lundén)
• Identification of mutations and mapping of candidate genes for lysosomal proteinase and esopeptidase activities of dry cured hams in pigs (Fontanesi, L., R. Davoli, S. Galli and V. Russo)
• Creating high density Radiation Hybrid maps to fine map QTLs in cattle (Williams, J.L., S.D. McKay, N. Hastings, O. Jann, M. Janitz, S. Hennig, S. Floriot, P. Ajmone-Marsan, E. Milanesi, A. Valentini, C. Marchitelli, M. Savarese, S.S. Moore and A. Eggen)
• Genetic and genomic approaches to improve production in water buffalo (Strazzullo, M., C. Campanile, M. D'Esposito and L. Ferrara)
• Analysis of allelic variants in exon 5 of the growth hormone gene in Sistani and Dashtiari breeds of cattle (Emrani, H. and A. Torkamanzehi)
• Type I DNA markers (ATP1A2, CA3 and DECR1) on porcine chromosome 4 for carcass and meat quality traits in pigs (Davoli, R., S. Braglia, I. Nisi, L. Fontanesi, L. Buttazzoni and V. Russo)
• Molecular charactrization of CD18 gene and identification carriers of BLAD disorder in Iranian Holstein bulls (Asadzadeh, N., M. Esmaeilzadeh, F. Sarhaddi, A. Javanmard and Mollasalehi)