1. Genetic variability of transcript abundance in pig skeletal muscle at slaughter: Relationships with meat quality traits
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Cherel, P., Herault, Frédéric, Vincent, Annie, Le Roy, Pascale, Damon, Marie, Hendrix Genetics RTC, Génétique Animale (GARen), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes-IFR140, Systèmes d'élevage, nutrition animale et humaine (SENAH), AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), This work was carried out with financial support from the ANR-Agence Nationale de la Recherche–The French National Research Agency under the Programme National de Recherche en Alimentation, project ARN-PNRA-2006-25, GENMASCQ., Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Rennes, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), AGROCAMPUS OUEST, and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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qualité de la viande ,muscle squelettique ,Science des productions animales ,sélection indirecte ,muscle longissimus ,arn ,transcriptome analysis ,indirect selection ,sus scrofa ,[SDV.SA.SPA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies ,gene expression ,loin meat quality ,longissimus muscle ,analyse du transcriptome ,Animal production studies ,expression des gènes ,porc - Abstract
Chantier qualité GA; A family structured population of 325 pigs (females and barrows) was produced as an intercross between 2 commercial sire lines and was subjected to a systematic transcriptome analysis of LM samples obtained shortly after slaughter. Additionally, measurements of meat quality traits of fresh and cooked loin were gathered from the same animals. The transcriptome analysis was achieved by microarray hybridization, using a custom repertoire of 15,000 6mer DNA probes targeting transcripts expressed in growing pig skeletal muscle. These data allowed us to estimate the heritability of expression abundance for each of the quantified RNA species. The abundance of 9,765 RNA was estimated as heritable with a false discovery rate of 5%, from which 1,174 were deemed as highly heritable (h2 > 0.50). We also observed a large number of transcripts whose LM expression abundance is genetically correlated with 4 meat quality traits: the loin pH measured at 45 min postmortem (pH45), 253 transcripts; the loin cooking loss (CL), 134 transcripts; the cooked loin shear force (SFc), 184 transcripts; and the loin color redness (a*) value, 190 transcripts. Heritable and meat quality genetically correlated transcripts showed an over-representation of biological processes involved in the induction of apoptosis (genetically correlated with CL), complement activation (genetically correlated with SFc), glucose metabolism (genetically correlated with a*), and cation channel activity (genetically correlated with pH45). Overall, the biological functions highlighted in the highly heritable transcripts and the lack of transcript that would be genetically correlated with LM glycolytic potential suggest that the genetic variability of the LM postmortem transcriptome is focused on muscle tissue response to postmortem ischemia and reflects more distantly the antemortem muscle physiology. Because of the contrasting distributions of the genetic correlations between LM RNA concentrations and the different meat quality traits studied, indirect selection strategies of meat quality traits based on measurements of selected LM RNA species could be only proposed for a subset of the analyzed meat characteristics (pH45, SFc, a*, CL). A substantial improvement in the efficiency of selection for these meat quality traits could result from measuring muscle RNA concentrations on selection candidates, if the same genetic parameters can be verified using in vivo-sampled muscles.
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- 2012
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